19 years old & English - this was kind of obvious, really.
In my experience, people interested in hacking and infosec over the age of 25 are more likely to know about 2600 and hold it in some regard, unlike those younger than 25. Hence, it was pretty clear that lulzsec was comprised of under 25 year olds.
They also engaged in some very unlulz-y personal wars with a few people, and didn't quite seem to know limits - very much a young person trying to prove themselves too hard sort of thing.
Similarly, they hacked a number of British sites, and something about their use of langauge sounded to me, as an former forum moderator, to be rather British. 2600 is also less well known over here.
Where are you getting the specific idea that they're ignorant of 2600? Is it something they've said, or just because of their general disregard for what one might hesitantly call tradition?
Sorry, I should have been more specific on this point - I was on my original draft, and I forgot to put it back in.
If you read through lulzsec's twitter, they entered a petty dispute with someone who hung out on a channel on the 2600 irc server. So they DDoSed 2600 as a whole and began to issue posturing tweets towards 2600.
Colors tend to be used in programming quite a bit. I'd expect quite a lot of british programmers/techies tend to write grey, even though it's not how it's spelt here. Just as we techies often write 'color' instead of 'colour'.
"Grey" is the usual British English (and Australian English) spelling. "Gray" is the usual American English spelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey
Don't forget about us Canadians (and all other British expansions), when they brought up Harper on their twitter I started noticing stuff like this, great eye cormullion.
after much deliberation, the typo has been corrected :P Clearly my regular keyboard is showing solidarity with the issues I have been having with swype on my phone today :P
In my experience, people interested in hacking and infosec over the age of 25 are more likely to know about 2600 and hold it in some regard, unlike those younger than 25. Hence, it was pretty clear that lulzsec was comprised of under 25 year olds.
They also engaged in some very unlulz-y personal wars with a few people, and didn't quite seem to know limits - very much a young person trying to prove themselves too hard sort of thing.
Similarly, they hacked a number of British sites, and something about their use of langauge sounded to me, as an former forum moderator, to be rather British. 2600 is also less well known over here.