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Their Twitter status from about half an hour ago is far more interesting:

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/94033541196824576

"We're currently working with certain media outlets who have been granted exclusive access to some of the News of the World emails we have."




Reminded a bit of V for Vendetta's speech: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EORflS7uEIc

And bit of John F. Kennedy:

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable


Reminded a bit of V for Vendetta's speech

Well, guess where they got the masks from, amongst other things. Anonymous is pretty much V incarnate. He's their idol and inspiration. He's everything they aspire to be.


Rest assured that it won't be the guardian. Charles Arthur, their useless tech editor, has recently been on the end of a torrent of spite from topiary, who writes the lulzsec press releases, likely including this one.

http://twitter.com/#!/atopiary

EDIT: apparently sabu has been joining in as well. Pretty amusing.


Clicked expecting atopiary/sabu to be juvenile and Charles Arthur to be possibly clueless but professional, but it's actually hard to tell which side in those exchanges is more juvenile.


You can read the whole thread on one page here:

http://twitter.theinfo.org/93969411270123520

Considering he's technology editor, he just let himself get trolled HARD.




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