Lulz Security just hacked some FBI / NATO website

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[Guest Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald]

After 50 days, LulzSec announces they're disbanding

[Guest hahathhat]

they probably felt teh heat:

 

LATEST VERIZON DENIAL OF SERVICE ENTERS FOURTH DAY

Posted 25 Jun 2011 15:49:51 UTC

 

It seems incredible that we continue to be victimized by either the horrendous ineptitude or the endless malice of Verizon - but the evidence leaves no other conclusion.

 

This latest denial of service began immediately after the last broadcast of "Off The Hook." We immediately reported that our main machine, where all email and communications at 2600 are coordinated, was off the net. In a normal situation, this would result in a crew being dispatched. In our case, we had to prove that the problem wasn't in-house first. So we did the usual round of tests involving our modem and wiring at our facility and, as always, the problem did not lie there. In fact, after they were told this, they said they were already aware that the issue was "somewhere in the field."

 

All day Thursday we battled with them on getting the problem fixed, all the while being assured that it was imminent. It wasn't. Friday came and a new but familiar tactic of Verizon's was employed. They claimed to have shown up at our facility, unannounced, only to find nobody there. Despite acknowledging that the problem wasn't at our facility, this was actually used as an excuse to not follow through any further. We were then told they would call us early Saturday and do this all again. They never did and now it appears the rest of the weekend (at least) will go by without any action on this major problem.

 

There's something especially odd and troubling about this particular incident. It's become known that various individuals involved in some recent major hacking stories are communicating from our machine (in addition to our IRC network). This is nothing new - 2600.com has always been a presence for the community to set the record straight or to simply have a secure means of communicating with our staff. Almost as soon as we extended this courtesy to a member of the hacker group LulzSec, we were cut off from the net. We were able to quickly ascertain that this was not a standard denial of service attack but, rather, something much closer to the source of our Internet access.

 

If the types of incidents outlined above were happening to other companies and, specifically other controversial publications, then we wouldn't necessarily come to the conclusion that something nefarious was up. We stayed silent long enough to give this a chance to be resolved as some sort of a technical issue. Now, it seems clear that there's more going on.

 

We want to be very clear that we don't engage in illegal activity on any of our servers and that any ongoing communication that goes on there is of a journalistic nature and authorities would have one hell of a time challenging this. Nevertheless, we do keep our server in a secure location where any funny business on the part of authorities would be detected. We've all heard of cases where machines in a colocation facility have monitoring devices secretly attached to them by the authorities - sometimes blatantly illegally - while the end user remains oblivious to the fact that their machine is no longer secure. As this remains next to impossible for 2600.com, keeping us off the net is one way of forcing certain people to communicate in less secure manners. We intend to keep fighting to get our access back so we can continue to provide a forum for the community, not to mention keep our magazine in business.

 

We do apologize for all of the inconvenience that so many people are experiencing as a result of what's been going on. We know we're not completely without fault here - we could certainly have a better system in place where this sort of thing isn't so crippling to us. It's no excuse, but so many things get in the way in this community, where we're always involved in a new project, issue, conference, or campaign. With community support and involvement, we can get past this, expose the truth, and continue to make the world more exciting and worthwhile.

 

Stay tuned for updates.

 

http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/12106

[Guest theSun]

surely verizon/time warner/comcast don't like lulzsec, it would be in their best interest to attempt to uncover their members

 

 

they are raking it in and they know it, so they'll do whatever it takes to preserve this ridiculous overpriced system

 

i'm speaking from an american perspective