PBS' Frontline did a story on WikiLeaks. Some hackers didn't like it. LulzSec decided to "sail [a] Lulz Boat" around PBS' servers, leaving a pretty picture with the message "All Your Base Are Belong to LulzSec" (clearly some sort of satanist rallying cry) and suggested that Tupac Shakur is alive and well in New Zealand (like hell, everyone knows that Tupac is actually Vladimir Putin). WikiLeaks released an unedited video of the Frontline interview with Julian Assange instead of trashing the internet resources of the Public Broadcasting System.

Then using Twitter, the hacking group claimed credit for the PBS attack, and said it was working on another attack on Sony, declaring this upcoming attack to be the end of the multinational, multi-billion dollar corporation. No other details have been released, so who knows what will happen. Good for Sony though, they didn't even have to sue anybody to get attacked this time. I must say, it seems kind of ballsy to be using Twitter to discuss upcoming attacks or claim credit for previous attacks, but cyber crime in general, from simple social misbehavior to whatever, is nothing if not a game of brinkmanship.

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