Kevin Mitnick, Julian Assange, LulzSec

What connects those three genetelmen on the picture? All of them once decided to fight with government. First two lost, and what about with the number three? Of course Lulzsec is not one person, but a few. Although nothing is sure. However they are still free. Probably for not long.

Kevin Mitnick before he was arrested by the FBI was considered as a leading hacker (though I actually should probably write cracker) in the world. “After the arrest, Mitnick spent four years and 5 months in prison before the judgment. They held him in complete isolation, as he joked: I could initiate a massive nuclear attack from a prison telephone. Many people considered him a hero fighting a ruthless corporations, which resulted in the creation of Free Kevin movement. “(Source: Wikipedia). Kevin Mitnick broke into the systems of various state institutions. The biggest mistake was probably burglary and theft of multiple files from Tsutomu Shimomura computer, who was FBI consultant. Shimomura led to the arrest of Mitnick.

Julian Assange is a hacker, but not a burglaries brought him fame and trouble. Assange created Wikileaks, the encyclopedia which is place to published documents, which normally no one would see. Wikileaks became famous when Assange published documents concerning the war in Afghanistan, Iraq and later diplomatic notes from U.S. embassies. Late last year, Sweden has issued arrest warrant for Assange, who was accused of sexual crimes. Assange reported to the police in England and was arrested. Today, he is in house arrest, and apparently Assange is not happy with this lifestyle.

Who are the people of Lulzsec we don;t know. What is certain is that they treading on very thin ice. Kevin Mitnick has posted on Twitter his opinion:

The team of Lulzsec conceives himself more boldly (for example, you can order burglary into a specific site of the government) and more often they teasing the tiger, the closer the end of their business they are. Even the most talented hackers / crackers do not have a chance in the long run with the government or governments. Lulzsec broke even into CIA website. (At this point we begin the creation of conspiracy theories Lulzsec is a group of people carrying out the operation under the auspices of the U.S. government code-named “Yes We Can” and after all the U.S. government will proactively censor the Internet. OK, end of joke). Playing with CIA is not the best way of spending free time, but everyone is playing as he likes. Lulzsec promise to break into another sites, as well as to public various stolen data.

And it’s not funny anymore.

I know that everyone wants to know the secrets, especially those most guarded by government. It’s hard to say what will serve us better: true or unawareness. Problem lies in the fact that you can predict what with such a information unfriendly countries can do. I would prefer not to experience that.

I wonder why so unpopular on the map of hackers’ activity are China, Korea and other countries well known with their love to human rights …