Oh hes involved with Lulzsec, clearly not one of the "master minds" but he definitely is involved with whats going on and knows somewhat about whats going on, potentially a fair bit. I'd say hes a relatively small player tho whos more involved with running ancillary facilities such as the IRCd and potentially involved with the DDoSing tho probably not the actual cracking aspects.
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Oh hes involved with Lulzsec, clearly not one of the "master minds" but he definitely is involved with whats going on and knows somewhat about whats going on, potentially a fair bit. I'd say hes a relatively small player tho whos more involved with running ancillary facilities such as the IRCd and potentially involved with the DDoSing tho probably not the actual cracking aspects.
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If anything all this has done is made me re-watch a few old classic films like War Games, Sneakers (still got a very dusty copy on vhs), Hackers (god awful I know), Antitrust & Die Hard 4.
Funny how they really know nothing about him, but make him out to be a crazy mastermind.
And Swordfish?
And Swordfish?
(aside from the cringe worthy hacking) we need more travolta + oakenfold combinations.
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Forgot about that, haven't seen that film in ages. Although I'm probably freaked out by the fact John Travolta's hair, it seams to be getting bigger in each film he does.
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Indeed. In my reply to you I said that I don't think that someone's idle comments on irc or a forum would be enough justification.
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reports say this guy is very intelligent according to the American authorities. He may be extradited to the US.
Given what they've done over the last few days, I'm willing to bet that idle comments on their twitter feed would stand a good chance of being enough justification for releasing data to the security services.
I didn't look at it in detail but initial impression was the apache exploit they were using either injected code directly (buffer overflow) or allowed them to inject PHP code. Then giving them access to execute directly to the apache user and in some cases upload programs to brute force the superuser account.
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I don't agree....but it's all just conjecture on our parts so I'm sure we'll find out one way or another if/when further arrests are made and details emerge about the case(s).
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Was it any good? It should be up on the iplayer soon so I may see if I can catch it tomorrow...
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There is one small thing I find hilarious about the whole thing - it's Lulzsec's logo, for some reason it cracks me up every time I see it 
It was pretty much just an overview of what they have done so far. I have not been keeping up with it tbh, so i didn't really know much about it.
I didn't know that they had made public private details of serving police officers for example, and apparantly have released some sensitive info that could put undercover officers in danger.
Basically they were questioning the morality and saying how they started out just doing it for laughs but now reckon they have a 'cause'
They spoke to one of the members through email.
I didn't get to watch all of it as i was at work and actually had to do some work whilst it was on.
This is Newsnight! half an hour long with other stories as well.....microsoft IIS server had an exploit some years ago i think it was iis 3.0 , its not always the companies fault unless they just dont keep their software updated