are lulzsec hacks work of military intelligence?

Kurt Nimmo poses crucial question in recent article, "Are LulzSec Hacker Attacks the Work of Military Intelligence?". There are concerted "cyber terrorism" propaganda campaigns on mainstream media here and here. Russian and China are names dropped as a matter of course during discussions. Nimmo cuts to the chase, however, with simple observation, "Is it merely a coincidence so-called 'hackitvists' – who release the passwords of common folk in addition to attacking the CIA and the FBI’s InfraGard – are engaged in this behavior just as the Senate debates weighty cyber security legislation?" Revolutionary hacker groups are, most likely, newer more sophisticated forms of sixties-style COINTELPRO operations, engaged in false flag attacks. It is the Hegelian dialectic: problem, reaction and solution! The most recent act's curtain lowers on tragedy playing out before us: shutting down the internet as we know it!

related updates:
mission accomplished: thanks to lulzsec, draconian cybersecurity gains support*
lulzsec member nakomis allegedly military counter-intel?*
uk cops swoop in on possible lulzsec suspect*

1/27 defcon: congress, connections & 'the company'

s3480: 'protecting cyberspace as a national asset act of 2010' - bill to give president right to shutdown net back in congress*
doj seeks to have all web surfing tracked*
mozilla proposes 'do not track' addition to firefox*
google comes under fire for 'secret' relationship with nsa*
apple hires a military grade security chief*
zuckerberg's facebook page hacked*
social networks under attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US; they don't connect people – they isolate them*
report: US can't link manning to assange*
police arrest five over 'anonymous' wikileaks attacks*
video: tarpley on wikileaks & assange -
limited hangouts in the service of 'the company'?*

update: internet down in egypt ahead of protests*

apple manager arrested over $1 million in kickbacks

from computerworld: An Apple manager with responsibilities for the company's contract manufacturing in Asia was arrested Friday and charged with accepting kickbacks. Global supply manager Paul Shin Devine was charged with accepting $1 million in kickbacks from half a dozen Asian suppliers of iPhone and iPod accessories in a federal indictment and a civil suit, the San Jose Mercury News reported. Devine allegedly was paid for sharing confidential Apple information with contractors that helped them win Apple business on favorable terms, the paper said. The Wall Street Journal reports that Devine gave confidential information to companies like Cresyn Co. Ltd. in South Korea, Kaedar Electronics Co. Ltd. in China and Jin Li Mould Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. in Singapore. He allegedly shared the kickbacks with Andrew Ang, an employee of Jin Li who the indictment charges helped broker deals with his employer and others. Meanwhile, Apple Friday sued Devine in a case in U.S. District Court in San Jose, and he is scheduled to appear on Monday, the Journal said.

defcon 7/15: tracked, traced & databased

10 ways we are being tracked, traced & databased*
consumer group sniffs congresswoman's open wi-fi*
this is what it sounds like when the internet cries*
white house plan to safeguard cyberspace*
cybersecurity consensus: 'we haven't done enough'*
nasa space shuttle firm to cut 1,000 jobs*
hacking the electric grid? you and what army?*
fmr nsa exec thomas a. drake may pay high price for media leak*
nsa executive leaked after official reporting process failed*
mobile phones 'causing memory loss'*
US scientists create cloth that can listen, produce sound*
1000s of laptops stolen during 9hr heist*
video: teens using digital drugs to get high*

defcon 6/9: wikileaked, registered & artificials

US intel analyst arrested in wikileaks video probe*
bbc: wikileaks site unfazed by arrest of US army 'source'*
video: state dept anxious about diplomatic secrets bradley manning allegedly downloaded*
wikileaks was launched with documents intercepted from tor*
wikileaks & julian paul assange in 'the new yorker'*
wikileaks denies tor hacker eavesdropping gave site its start* at&t leak leaves US apple ipad owners at risk*
bill gives feds 'emergency’ powers to secure civilian nets*
dhs would be cyber power center under lieberman/collins proposal*
nsa chief: US carefully monitoring military computer networks for sabotage*
wireless signals to be jammed in canada for g8 summit*
top US commander in iraq raises internet concerns*
new worries emerge about internet monitoring*
calls increase for govt to regulate net journalists & bloggers*
michigan considers law to register journalists*
lawyers claim google wi-fi sniffing 'is not an accident'*
chinese net addicts stage mutiny at boot camp*
ceo of firm that made $100m selling 'scareware' was a fugitive*
6 astronauts begin 520-day mock flight to mars*
approaching space object 'artificial, not asteroid' says nasa*
more active sun means nasty solar storms ahead*
ancient meteorite discovered in oregon*

defcon 5/27: hacking cough, fever & runny nodes

man infects himself with computer virus*
video: cyberwar could cripple the nation*
clarke: next terrorist threat will be from those resisting technology*
india sees cyber warfare as new-gen security threat*
second man jailed over scientology ddos attacks*
space so full of junk that a satellite collision could destroy communications on earth*
shuttle atlantis completes 32nd & final flight*

defcon 4/1: cybercensors & torrents of controversy

censorship act: new amendment could block wikileaks*
army intel acorn-ing wikileaks? web publisher under attack*
uk lords pass controversial internet piracy bill*
computer-controlled swarm of bacteria builds tiny pyramid*
don't believe the hype: there's no such thing as 'cyber'*

school laptop spy case prompts wiretap act rethink*
isohunt told to pull .torrent files offline, likely to close*
indie filmmakers sue 1000s of bittorrent users*
how the fbi busted one youtube nutjob in under a day*
comcast rolls out broadband meters coast to coast*

defcon 3/25: killswitch, siphons & existential threats

large hadron collider cranked to 'maximum redline power'*
obama's veto power/killswitch over net removed in amended bill*
time to split the nsa?*
break up the nsa!*
US secret service paid tjx hacker $75k a year*
update: tjx hacker gets 20yrs in prison*
cyber-assaults bombard federal computers*
uk anti-terror police seek help from internet cafes*
acta draft: no internet for copyright scofflaws*
your health, tax & search data siphoned*
toronto man with al-qaeda ties ran extremist blog*
why cnn exec fears social-networking sites*
wireless survey: 91% of US use cell phones*
cyberattacks an 'existential threat' to US, fbi says*
cybersecurity & the 2 homelands hypothesis*
google exits china - except for part known as hong kong*
cyber-attack on US firms, google traced to chinese*
chinese media: google is tied to US intelligence*
chinese academics’ paper on cyberwar sets off alarms in US*
video: US gov uses google proxy to attack china*

ex-tsa worker sent virus to sabotage terror watchlist computers

from 9news: Federal prosecutors have charged a former Transportation Security Administration employee with attempting to sabotage terror watch list computers. Douglas Duchak, 46, of Colorado Springs, faces two charges of attempting to damage protected TSA computers.

Duchak pleaded not guilty and was released from custody. The suspect allegedly tried to send a virus into the computer system's servers, after learning he would be terminated, 9Wants to Know confirms. The computer system includes the government's no-fly list.

Duchak worked at the TSA's Colorado Springs Operation Center where the government loads computers with data received from the federal government's Terrorist Screening Database and the U.S. Marshal's Service Warrant Information Network, according to a U.S. Attorney's office spokesman.

Duchak worked at the Colorado Springs Operations Center from August 2004 to Oct. 23, 2009 as a data analyst.

Federal prosecutors say Duchak was not successful in his attempt to introduce a virus into the computer system, but if he had been successful it "would have caused damage affecting a computer used by the United States government in furtherance of national security," according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

"Prosecution of the defendant is critical to protecting the integrity of the government's security databases," said U.S. Attorney David M. Gaouette. Duchak is expected to appear in Denver federal court Wednesday afternoon. If convicted, he faces 10 years in prison for each count. This case was investigated by the TSA, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

"While this threat was an attempted internal attack on a cyber based system by a U.S. citizen, the FBI will invest the time, resources, and hard work necessary to pursue prosecution of these cases," FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Denver office Jim Davis said. "The tampering with a computer that is used as a tool to protect National Security of the United States will not be tolerated," he said.