LulzSec's activities are about as entertaining to me as watching third graders write "poop" on the black board when the teacher isn't watching.
That said, I wish there were a "No" response other than "Hacking into companies and launching DDoS attacks is no laughing matter." The writers of the article seem to be going out of their way to match the stereotype of stodgy old corporate types shaking their fists at the young ones.
Yeah. I don't find them funny at all (well, poptart cat on PBS's site was kinda funny) and I don't agree with DDoSing because it's a vulnerability of the Net at large, not a specific failure of practice of the target (normally) - but I do think it's important to highlight the half-assery of a lot of highly paid security professionals.
Polls are never very good for capturing nuance. I was looking for the "Some of what they do is amusing, and they highlight the vulnerable nature of the systems we take for granted but they are certainly breaking the law and often overstepping what I would consider appropriate" option.
This one isn't especially well designed. For the "yes", it presents two fairly specific answers, ignoring the general case. A lot of biased Internet polls are made like this.
Well, there's a 10+ year animated series running that's basically about watching third graders right poop on the blackboard. So there's an audience. (disclaimer: I think South Park and lulzsec are funny)
I was going to say the same thing about South Park, and I also find it funny, even if I'm not very proud of this fact. I follow the LulzSec Twitter account and I have to say that in the past few days of boring work it was a pleasant breeze to read their tweet and have a little laugh at something stupid. It changes a bit from the usual lolcats ;-).
So my answer to the poll would start with "Yes," but none of the proposed choices fit what I want to say. I certainly don't want "more power to them" but I don't disapprove everything they're doing either.
I was going to say the exact same thing. No, I don't think being able to easily hack into security companies and effectively launching DDOS attacks is a laughing matter, but the onus is on the companies, not LulzSec. I'm glad they're exposing how weak and vulnerable much of the web is, but I don't find it humorous at all. Frankly, I don't think they do either.
That said, I wish there were a "No" response other than "Hacking into companies and launching DDoS attacks is no laughing matter." The writers of the article seem to be going out of their way to match the stereotype of stodgy old corporate types shaking their fists at the young ones.