While lulzsec were having their fun and getting mainstream media attention I had an excellent conversation with my Dad. He asked me simply who I thought was beh

While lulzsec were having their fun and getting mainstream media attention I had an excellent conversation with my Dad. He asked me simply who I thought was behind this kind of "hackivision". I explained that it was most probably intelligent but bored teenage kids living somewhere remote. I went on to tell him about the difference between script kiddies and real black hats. His take away lesson was that if smart and bored kids could defeat the security of all these serious sites then the people who are actually really good at cracking into things and doing it with out being noticed probably have free reign over the internet. It was pretty easy to convince him to start using complex pass phrases and not reuse them.