This afternoon, Lulz Security, an Anonymous hacker splinter group, took the CIA's website down. Why, you ask, did they do this? Because some guy on Twitter called Quadrapodacone got into a flame war with them, where he mocked their hacking abilities for only taking on 'soft targets' like PBS and Electronic Arts."Stop calling yourself hackers, you're giving real hackers a bad name," Quadrapodacone said. He scoffed at Lulzsec's affinity for Distributed Denial of Service attacks—floods of traffic that overwhelm servers: "Seriously... DDoS is not hacking," he twitted. "Here's a challenge... fbi.gov or cia.gov try changing text or something. "Hey jackhammer, get some attention span... we've hit two agency websites already," Lulzsec shot back. Still, less than an hour later, CIA.gov went down. But Quadrapodacone still isn't impressed: "Site up nothing changed... lulz." Lulz Security has since deleted their side of the conversation.
So, yeah, I guess they showed him. In the last two weeks, LulzSec has taken down the websites of the U.S. Senate (twice), FBI, and 4chan. It would appear that LulzSec is an Anon offshoot, possibly the 'Let's Fuck Shit Up' branch or something. The war they declared on 4chan seems to have distinguished them as a seperate entity. What will these guys do next? The Interwebs are waiting breathlessly...
