In all seriousness, I do not think that anybody really truly believes that LulzSec have called it quits after only 50 days. Maybe had decided to quit while they were ahead. Maybe after hacking CIA.gov that they all had a FBI party buses parked in front of their homes. Maybe after the last arrest they have decided that they just need to lay low for a bit. Who knows?
The fact that Ryan Cleary, has already been arrested and appeared in court may have been something to do with this. (scared pussies).There is a very large question as to how much LulzSec was cooperating with Anonymous.
Really the staying power of LulzSec was quite disappointing, they're not exactly anonymous, Al Qaeda or the red brigade. However I do have to say that they cause the biggest splash on hacking scene for as many years as I can remember.
Many people question how effective their attacks were, or how serious their contribution was their contribution to hacktivism. There are many out there in the blogosphere who are now forming their own conspiracy theories that the whole thing was a government set up, so that the US Senate can force through more totalitarian anti-hacking measures. But let's face it, conspiracy theories is what Internet does best.
Many hactivists are angry because LulzSec was nothing more special than a bunch of script kiddies, who only attacked the very weak without any real justifiable cause. Indeed this was part of LulzSec mission statement, to point out the gaping holes that exist in the computer systems of some of the world's biggest corporations and governments. One thing is for sure, I do not believe that any Sony executive, security expert, or shareholder will see any lulz in of this experience.
Something I really do not understand is why it LulzSec would attempt to attack a series of large game companies. I can understand why they would attack banks, the American government, or other like institutions. But these guys play games, and shall while they might be pissed off about some aspects of DRM, I'm not quite sure how the outright theft and resale of customers private details and credit card numbers achieves an anti-DRM message. If anything quite the opposite.
I guess that's why they did it, just for the lulz.
I personally expect to see LulzSec again in the near future. I do not believe that the Lulz boat has cast off for good.
-Tetracarbon out.
UPDATE:
Look who have the last laugh:
The FBI raids innocent firms - but it's hard to see through the Fog-of-internet-War when we you are fighting in the Cloud.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/07/internet-servers?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/ontherack
UPDATE2:
Ulgh... the Economist got it wrong. An errata states it was a Latvian crime ring and not LulzSec. This post now is retrospectively pointless. Sorry! Even the Economist screws up from time to time.
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