By Madison Ruppert

Editor of End the Lie

Ever since I first hypothesized that LulzSecurity, better known as LulzSec, was a government red team, the evidence just keeps building. If LulzSec is not a government operation then it is very likely that they have government operatives in their ranks influencing all of the decision making while keeping tabs. If they are not infiltrated by government-funded hackers, then they are so short sighted that they think getting some giggles over defacing pages or bringing down public websites through DDoS attacks outweighs the repercussions.

Assuming that this “hacktivist” group would actually be clueless enough to think that carrying out these major hacks right when the Senate Judiciary Committee is about to hold a hearing on the Obama administration’s cybersecurity proposals before the subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism is a bit of a leap.

Regardless of if LulzSec is a government red team or just useful idiots, they are perfectly playing into the hands of the Obama administration and others in Washington.

These latest attacks serve to lend a great deal of support to the Obama administration’s efforts to crackdown on internet freedoms in the name of national and personal security. LulzSec’s release of over 62,000 e-mail and password combinations of everyday people will undoubtedly get a segment of the population behind these legislative maneuvers. The Obama administration has also been calling for the maximum sentencing for potentially endangering national security to be bumped up from 10 years to 20 years.

The pushes coming from the Obama camp and throughout Washington were coming long before this recent string of high-profile attacks. LulzSec’s recent actions therefore allow Obama and other politicians to say, “Look, we obviously really need this! You would have been safe if you passed this bill taking away all free speech and privacy on the internet!”

If this law is passed it will put every participant in any operation carried out by LulzSec against a government target such as Senate.gov, CIA.gov, or perhaps even the FBI affiliate InfraGard at risk of going to prison for up to 20 years. It would also make it much easier to prosecute whistle-blowers, like Pfc. Bradley Manning, and put them away for significant lengths of time.

Now LulzSec is stepping up their game by joining forces with the group called Anonymous, a loose-knit group of internet users whose formation can be traced back to 4Chan. This merger and the declaration of open war on government and banking websites has brought international scrutiny and especially domestic federal attention.

The following is the declaration in whole from PasteBin:

Salutations Lulz Lizards,

As we’re aware, the government and whitehat security terrorists across the world continue to dominate and control our Internet ocean. Sitting pretty on cargo bays full of corrupt booty, they think it’s acceptable to condition and enslave all vessels in sight. Our Lulz Lizard battle fleet is now declaring immediate and unremitting war on the freedom-snatching moderators of 2011.

Welcome to Operation Anti-Security (#AntiSec) – we encourage any vessel, large or small, to open fire on any government or agency that crosses their path. We fully endorse the flaunting of the word “AntiSec” on any government website defacement or physical graffiti art. We encourage you to spread the word of AntiSec far and wide, for it will be remembered. To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.

Whether you’re sailing with us or against us, whether you hold past grudges or a burning desire to sink our lone ship, we invite you to join the rebellion. Together we can defend ourselves so that our privacy is not overrun by profiteering gluttons. Your hat can be white, gray or black, your skin and race are not important. If you’re aware of the corruption, expose it now, in the name of Anti-Security.

Top priority is to steal and leak any classified government information, including email spools and documentation. Prime targets are banks and other high-ranking establishments. If they try to censor our progress, we will obliterate the censor with cannonfire anointed with lizard blood.

It’s now or never. Come aboard, we’re expecting you…

History begins today.

Lulz Security,

http://LulzSecurity.com/

Support: http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html
Support: http://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia
Support: http://wikileaks.ch/
Support: http://anonyops.com/

The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, has already issued a short guide to mitigating against these DDoS attacks employed by LulzSec, most recently on the CIA public website. Due to the increased scrutiny both of these groups have been put under, an arrest has already been made in the UK where a 19 year old named Ryan Cleary was arrested on Monday. On top of the law enforcement agencies around the world increasing the heat on LulzSec and Anonymous, the media is helping to make this possible red team seem like the al Qaeda of the internet. And what can stop the al Qaeda of the internet? Why only draconian cybersecurity measures of course!

Would a "terror ring of super-brain hackers" really have this associated with them?

The International Business Times characterizes LulzSec as a, “terror ring of super-brain hackers who torment governments and the biggest of corporations in the world no end.” Later in the article we read, “‘The loner who lives his life online’ would face up to 60 years in prison in the US if his guilt is proved in a court. He is liable to be extradited to the US for the offence [sic] of hacking into the Senate and CIA.”

This is after the group claimed to have only a mild association with Cleary. The fact is that it would be very unlikely for the group not to be infiltrated by federal or international law enforcement or individuals working with them. LulzSec is being exposed thoroughly from within their own ranks, there are several logs from IRC here. There has also been a Blogspot website set up called “LulzSec Exposed” that purports to expose several members, conversations, and logs from older IRC chats proving that LulzSec came out of Anonymous.

There is also the unconfirmed claim made that alleges the LulzSec member Nakomis is actually military counter-intelligence.

At this point, we cannot say with any amount of certainty if this group is a government red team. However, we can definitely say that they are flawlessly building support for the Obama administration’s China-style web censorship plans and longer sentences for hacking. It also helps justify massive expenditures like the $1.2 billion NSA cybersecurity center.

What do you think? Are the members of LulzSec inadvertently supporting legislation that will eradicate all of our freedoms? Or are they at least infiltrated by government agents who are influencing the direction and target of the attacks? Or could a large percentage of them be government agents or free-lance contractors, forming a legitimate red team/red cell?

Personally, I think that they are infiltrated by government agents or individuals hired by the government that are directing their attacks, all of which have served as perfect talking points for legislators like Joe Lieberman. It just seems all too coincidental and beneficial for Washington politicians and all too nonsensical for a group of hacktivists.

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