Hi. It's Iain from the BBC here. I wrote the piece. I took your comments on board and changed the line about DDoS leaving sites more open to attack.<p>The story now states that we don't know if Lulz went beyond a DDoS and took other info from the servers.<p>Cheers
The set up seems sort of similar to how a mind reading magician might do his work- take thousands of phone call requests, do as you please, and claim to have responded to requests and not just whatever you're able to break into. This might make it seem as if you're able to break into anything at whim and not select, relatively unsecure networks.
EVE Online, Minecraft, Escapist magazine ... what was the point again? I thought at first they had a moral motive.<p>Anyway, DDOSing is not hacking and at least with these harmless kiddie attacks the defense mechanisms will be more readily available and cheaper (due to higher demand).