@DeusXMachina I'm sorry but I find your perception of reality to be greatly entertaining so I have to perpetuate the conversation. Firstly at what point did I say or suggest that LulzSec were innocent?
Also for an interesting comparison when there was a death penalty in the UK for being a catholic priest (it was considered treason, for which you would be hung, drawn and quartered... a death worse than crucifiction), did that make being a catholic priest wrong or evil?
Oh and did you actually happen to read all that I said? Because I'm pretty sure I was attempting to emphasize the fact that real cyber criminals do far more damage than LulzSec ever will and are the real threat and are the ones that should be concentrated on rather than the world spending humongous amounts of resources attempting to catch hackers that announce themselves and what they've done leaving a much easier mess to clean up.
Just to extrapolate a second, the really dangerous hackers (strictly speaking should be called 'crackers') will either use the information they gather for their own twisted aims, without telling anyone that they've used it or got it (so victims can do nothing about it, i.e. change their information) or they will sell it on to thousands in the criminal underworld.
The information that LulzSec posted became comparatively speaking worthless to the criminal underworld the second they released it as public information. Sure some low-level information scavengers will filter through the scraps to find the one poor sod who didn't change his information but compared to the millions of credit card numbers and parts of our e-identities that are traded every day they are relatively worthless.
To them the LulzSec data is tainted because it is significantly less likely to hold useful data (due to its public nature, either the would be victim was smart and changed his information or another criminal group already abused it for all it was worth)
Bizarrely I think you would find it interesting to read LulzSec's press releases, in them you will find them admitting wholly that they will most likely get caught, they do not believe they are 'above the law' they may think the law is insufficient and flawed (which it is) but they expect to be caught eventually. That sorta brings home a different kind of reality don't you think?
Put yourself in their shoes and think why the flying f**k would I ever deliberately, knowingly put myself in a position where I expect, I know I am going to end up in prison with the entirety of the rest of my life ruined?
In general, it would most likely help you, especially in your personal life, if you stopped de-humanizing humans. Even Hitler was a man, a man which his maid to the day she died professed to be absolutely charming. (quick Google search will confirm this). People of the world, in general, in order cope with life and their incredibly simplified ideas of reality, monstorify and de-humanize anyone that doesn't immediately fit in with their perception (or understanding) of reality.
On that note I've got some news for you, given the right environment, you'd be one of them, or at least you'd try to be... not sure you'd have the skillz ;p
