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Newsnight online 'chat' with Lulz Security hacking group

BBC :

The Lulz Security hacking group that has claimed attacks on high-profile targets including the CIA and Sony in recent weeks has exclusively told the BBC's Newsnight programme that it wants to target the "higher ups" who write the rules and "bring them down a few notches".

In an online Q&A, Whirlpool, the spokesman for Lulzsec, who describes himself as "captain of the Lulz Boat", agreed that their goals now go beyond that: "Politically motivated ethical hacking is more fulfilling".

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'Why I hacked the government'

Hacker Jake Davis says he was motivated by the idea of the internet as a 'Utopian space'

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Ex-LulzSec hacker Hector Monsegur talks family, FBI work

CNET: The notorious computer hacker and FBI informant is telling his side of the story. Join us for a discussion of his beginnings, his rise to power in the hacking community and his ultimate downfall.

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Feds recommend lenience for LulzSec hacker 'Sabu'

CNET: "LulzSec hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur -- aka 'Sabu' -- may walk out of court a free man on Tuesday. In a memo filed this week in a US district court, prior to Monsegur's scheduled sentencing on May 27, government attorneys say that because of his "extremely valuable and productive" work as an informant for law enforcement, Monsegur should be spared a long prison term."