• mlg@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Yeah I know about them, and they were actually the inspiration for Dedsec in Watchdogs, but they shuttered after the FBI caught one and flipped him real quick lol.

    I could be wrong, but I don’t think we ever really saw a group like LulzSec again with the same level of notoriety and success.

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      16 hours ago

      Fuck Sabu, all my homies hate Sabu

      That’s fair, as you said most are smashed these days by capitalism and thus focus on ransomware.

      The thing is if a group wanted to remain in operation, being public is against their own interest. Back then it was easier to get away with things. Cloudflare wasn’t as advanced/heavily utilized, load balancers weren’t considered and lots of old architecture riddled with vulns made things fun. Web security was also extremely poor via xss.