In fairness, lulzsec did morph from "security research group tired of waiting for site operators to protect their users" to "blackhat hacker collective". The t

In fairness, lulzsec did morph from "security research group tired of waiting for site operators to protect their users" to "blackhat hacker collective". The timing was a major problem. If you do have to defend yourself, I think saying you misjudged the nature of lulzsec is a defensible thing to say.