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Comment by corin_ | Hacker News Reader

How is it that so much coverage of LulzSec still hasn't understood their motives?

  The group's agenda isn't entirely clear right now

Yes, it is, they're doing it because they find it funny.

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I think it's dismissive to jump to that conclusion - they're likely turning a healthy profit by dumping lists of emails, credit card numbers, and zero-day vulnerabilities on the black market.

If they wanted to do that, then I don' think they would announce it. Offering someone a bunch of private data, 0 days, credit card info, but then making it useless in a few hours because you announce it to the world, hardly seems like a viable/profitable business.

That works under the assumption that they release everything, when they have explicitly said that they do not.

Specifically - information gained in the Bethesda http://pastebin.com/i5M0LB58 and whitehat http://pastebin.com/MQG0a130 raids has not been released.

you'd think their name would make this motivation apparent...

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