EVE Online Targeted By LulzSec

lordsilence writes "It seems LulzSec is now targeting CCP Games' Eve Online with a denial of service attack. The extent of this attack is yet not known but the game cluster and EVEOnline.com website are down at the writing of this post.. A possible reason for targeting CCP could be the affiliation with Sony. CCP recently announced during E3 that their upcoming game Dust514 would be Sony Playstation 3 exclusive."

Re:I call BS

[Tolkien]

My guess is that LulzSec == government entities (joint or not is no matter) looking to discredit Anonymous. The real Anonymous of yore wouldn't point their cannons in such arbitrary manners.

Re:I call BS

[JavaBear]

LulzSec is a bunch of DDoS'ing script-kiddies in serious need of some hot and heavy man love in a Super Max...

Re:I call BS

[Tolkien]

Anonymous is nobody's personal army, they coordinate because of shared beliefs and because of the obvious fact that there is power in numbers. Those who don't share the beliefs simply don't join in the attacks. Anonymous is Hive-mind or "peer-to-peer" thought. This is what governments would likely capitalize on. Shards of the group splitting off and "going rogue" with the unspoken objective of discrediting the original values of Anonymous is entirely believable and possible. That's why we need to be careful of who to believe and trust even if they wear the same name tag as "the Anonymous of yore", so to speak. There's no reason for Anonymous to have lost its core values. A different group is just borrowing the name for their own purposes, whatever they may be.

I know it's from a movie, but ...

[aztektum]

Alfred Pennyworth: A long time ago, I was in Burma, my friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never found anyone who traded with him. One day I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away.

Bruce Wayne: Then why steal them?

Alfred Pennyworth: Because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I find it fitting since they're in it for the "LuLz" as was the Joker

"Original" Anonymous are trolls.

[the_raptor]

You just don't get it. The original, from 4chan, Anonymous are a bunch of trolls and always have been. The only time anything approaching morality entered the mass consciousness of Anon was during Project Chanology, and if anyone hurts cats. Long before Anonymous was in the news they were happily trolling Nazis, furries, pedos, twelve year old girls, quadriplegics, gay kids, Christians, Muslims, Atheists etc.

The only rule is "we do it for the lulz".

The moral hacktivist Anonymous of Project Chanology era was entirely a creation of a handful of individuals who did a very good job of media manipulation. The vast majority of Anons were just participating because it was funny to annoy the Scientologists.

4chan is not your personal army, but if you offer them an interesting enough target they will participate until bored. If your target isn't interesting they are just as likely to track down your docs and harass you instead of the target.