Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: The Day the Internet Shut Down.
LOL.
Dominic Basulto on June 16, 2011, 10:05 PM
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On June 14, the day designated as Titanic Takeover Tuesday, a group of hackers known as LulzSec...
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Atlantic International Partnership Headlines: The Day the Internet Shut Down.
LOL.
Dominic Basulto on June 16, 2011, 10:05 PM
http://bigthink.
com/ideas/38908
On June 14, the day designated as Titanic Takeover Tuesday, a group of hackers known as LulzSec took
down the website of the CIA, hacked into 62,000 email accounts and organized a telephone call-in
request line for hackers to flood the phone lines of the FBI.
And that’s just days after they hacked into the
U.
S.
Senate website, took down the Sony PlayStation Network, defaced the PBS website and generally
wreaked havoc on sites across the Internet.
Unlike the hacktivist splinter group Anonymous, LulzSec
makes no pretense of doing anything more than generally pranking the Internet – if you consider hacking
into the official websites of the U.
S.
government a “prank.
”
Lulz, of course, is the plural form of LOL, and typically gets translated as “just for kicks.
” As in, “Hey,
we just took down the CIA website.
We did it for t
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