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Inside LulzSec: How the Superstar Hackers Met Wikileaks
For 50 days during the summer of 2011, the members of Lulz Security were the most famous hackers on the planet. A splinter group of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, LulzSec tore up Fox News Fox Broadcasting, crashed the CIA’s website and leaked hundreds of thousands of Sony customers’ passwords, boasting of each new hack on their entertaining Twitter account.
During the height of their exploits, journalist Parmy Olson had an inside track with LulzSec’s key players, including Topiary, the group’s quick-witted spokesman, and Sabu, the de facto LulzSec leader-turned FBI informant who helped bring the crew down. Olson’s new book,We Are Anonymous, tells the fascinating story of LulzSec’s rise and fall.
One of the more intriguing episodes in LulzSec’s brief run was when Wikileaks founder Julian Assange apparently tried to enlist them to hack his enemies. The following excerpt from We Are Anonymous details a previously undisclosed online meeting that took place in July 2011 between LulzSec hackers and a Wikileaks representative* named “q.” —Ed
For Assange, a simple DDoS attack on CIA.gov was some much needed comic relief. Since Anonymous had leaped to his defense in December, he had spent the last few months fighting the threat of extradition to the United States and accusations of treason over WikiLeaks’s release of diplomatic cables. Swedish authorities had doubled his problems by charging him with attempted rape, which meant he was now fighting extradition to Sweden too. In the meantime, he was staying in the countryside manor of an English journalist, wearing an electronic tag and trying to keep up with developments in the world of cyber security. It had been hard not to notice LulzSec. On the one hand, the group looked like fearless comedians. On the other, it clearly had skilled hackers on the team.
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ONE-POINT DARES
Ignore the first five people who say ‘good morning’ to you.
To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.
Leave your fly open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, “Sorry, I really prefer it this way”.
Walk sideways to the photocopier.
While going in an elevator, gasp dramatically each time the doors open.
When in elevator with one other person, tap them on the shoulder and pretend it wasn’t you.
Finish all your sentences with “In accordance with the prophecy…”
Don’t use any punctuation.
Interrupt your conversation with someone by giving a huge dejected sigh.
Use your highlighter pen on the computer screen.
THREE-POINT DARES
Say to your boss, “I like your style”, wink, and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.
Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle.
Shout random numbers while someone is counting.
Every time you get an email, shout ”email”.
Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has got over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
Keep hole punching your finger. Each time you do, shout, “dagnamit, it’s happened again!”. Then do it again.
Introduce yourself to a new colleague as “the office bicycle”. Then wink and pout.
Call I.T. helpdesk and tell them that you can’t seem to access any pornography web sites.
FIVE-POINT DARES
At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).
Walk into a very busy person’s office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.
For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as “Dave”.
Announce to everyone in a meeting that you “really have to go do a number two”.
After every sentence, say ‘Mon’ in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in: “The report’s on your desk, Mon.” Keep this up for one hour.
In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, “Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!”
At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!”
Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: “Do hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, it’s gone now.”
Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit; smash biscuit with your fist.
During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.
As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
Hump the photocopier. When someone spots you, stop and cough embarrassingly, then lean in to the machine and whisper loudly, “I’ll call you tonight”.
Smartly Dressed Demonstrators Peacefully Protest Abercrombie & Fitch Takeover of Saville Row
Yesterday morning, at the behest of pro-dandy British publication The Chap, “swathes of immaculately dressed chaps and chapettes” descended on No. 3 Savile Row, former home to the legendary Apple Studio, where they engaged in a peaceful protest of Abercrombie & Fitch’s imminent soiling of the celebrated shopping street with a new children’s clothing store.
The “chumrades in arms” then took their message of “give three-piece a chance” to 7 Burlington Gardens, where the A&F flagship store resides. There, they were greeted by the Chief inspector of Savile Row Constabulary, who complemented the attendees on their attire, and labeled their gathering “the best dressed demonstration I have ever seen.”
[Boing Boing, photo via Stephanie Wolff]
