LulzSec
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So as far as I gather LULz and Anonymous are basically a high tech means of entrapment for the police. Agents working with intel agencies are posing as hackers and other Anon types, infiltrating their groups and even starting their own such as LULz. They help out with the activities of the groups, providing resources, ideas and knowledge and otherwise instigating the mayhem with them. They create strong ties with the members, who are usually naive and excited by just being involved in the group. Some of these members, if qualified, are even given 'promotions' or elevated in the groups standing by the agents themselves to secure their loyalty and get them more involved in the nefarious activities. Ultimately they get enough info and get the member involved in a situation, a high profile site hack for example. Eventually the police are tipped off by the informants and a proper investigation is started into the specific members.
What has been happening is basically what has been done with both the war on drugs and terrorism. Gang members and street kids are often easily duped into set ups. In this case its the same, only its techy teenager anarchist types from a middle class background who fit the profile. No deep legal or financial connects and guilty as sin. The perfect type to parade around the media as public enemy number one and spin the entire information security issue.
Its intended to trivialize the serious issues we're currently dealing with in privacy and human rights. You get politicians claiming Anon are a threat to national security to justify huge security spending and information activism is stereotyped as adolescent hacker games.