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This. While reading the article, I couldn't help but imagine the legions of extremely bright Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, etc hackers, most likely o
by aGHz 15y ago
This. While reading the article, I couldn't help but imagine the legions of extremely bright Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, etc hackers, most likely orders of magnitude more sophisticated than Sabu, looking at the LulzSec shenanigans with disdain and comparing our western hacking scene with Hollywood and Entertainment Tonight.
That being said, LulzSec et. al. were more about social activism than about accomplished hacking. For a mission like that you really need some mainstream appeal, and for that purpose the newage digital messiah fit the bill.
- methoddk 15y agoIt fit the bill but at what cost? This fool still walks free for cooperating and selling out his peers? I can't believe this guy actually has a twitter account with 30k followers. Since when has hacking become about being in the public eye? I get the activism of it all, but they went about it horribly from the beginning.
- Karunamon 15y ago>This fool still walks free for cooperating and selling out his peers? I'm very, very torn on this one. On one hand, I applauded a number of the Lulzsec hacks, and it's kind of hard not to cheer for someone "sticking it to the man". On the other hand, Sabu is a very distasteful sort of fellow, and IIRC Dante had the lowest circle of hell reserved for traitors and backstabbers. He isn't walking free, though. If memory serves, he's still going to be a convicted felon who spent a couple of years in club fed.