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19 years old & English - this was kind of obvious, really. In my experience, people interested in hacking and infosec over the age of 25 are more likely to kno
by FeministHacker 15y ago
19 years old & English - this was kind of obvious, really.
In my experience, people interested in hacking and infosec over the age of 25 are more likely to know about 2600 and hold it in some regard, unlike those younger than 25. Hence, it was pretty clear that lulzsec was comprised of under 25 year olds.
They also engaged in some very unlulz-y personal wars with a few people, and didn't quite seem to know limits - very much a young person trying to prove themselves too hard sort of thing.
Similarly, they hacked a number of British sites, and something about their use of langauge sounded to me, as an former forum moderator, to be rather British. 2600 is also less well known over here.
- haakon 15y ago> infosex I am trying to imagine how this is done.
- Goladus 15y agohttp://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.html http://www.ted.com/talks/matt_ridley_when_ideas_have_sex.htm... (not really relevant to lulzsec, I hope no one minds)
- FeministHacker 15y agoafter much deliberation, the typo has been corrected :P Clearly my regular keyboard is showing solidarity with the issues I have been having with swype on my phone today :P
- naz 15y agoI agree, an example of British English is treating a company as a plural as seen in this tweet: http://twitter.com/LulzSec/status/81400729583108097 http://twitter.com/LulzSec/status/81400729583108097
- kia 15y agoAll this reminds me the story of this guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
- JonnieCache 15y agoWhere are you getting the specific idea that they're ignorant of 2600? Is it something they've said, or just because of their general disregard for what one might hesitantly call tradition?
- nuetrino 15y agoUnder 25 here, what would you hesitantly call tradition?
- palish 15y agoUnder 25 here, what's the relevance of 2600?
- thret 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
- FeministHacker 15y agoSorry, I should have been more specific on this point - I was on my original draft, and I forgot to put it back in. If you read through lulzsec's twitter, they entered a petty dispute with someone who hung out on a channel on the 2600 irc server. So they DDoSed 2600 as a whole and began to issue posturing tweets towards 2600.
- cormullion 15y agoThey wrote "grey" hat rather than "gray". Or is that spelling less unique to British English than I thought?
- speckledjim 15y agoColors tend to be used in programming quite a bit. I'd expect quite a lot of british programmers/techies tend to write grey, even though it's not how it's spelt here. Just as we techies often write 'color' instead of 'colour'.
- wzdd 15y ago"Grey" is the usual British English (and Australian English) spelling. "Gray" is the usual American English spelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey
- int3rnaut 15y agoDon't forget about us Canadians (and all other British expansions), when they brought up Harper on their twitter I started noticing stuff like this, great eye cormullion.