LulzSec video suggests return to action

Hacktivist group LulzSec has hinted at a potential return next month.

After it disbanded last year after 50 days of protest and online activism, members of the gang were arrested two weeks ago, including leader Sabu, who it emerged have been acting as an FBI informant against other members.

In a video posted to YouTube last weekend and titled LulzSec Returns, the gang says it decided to "bring back our humble hacking group and set sail towards the interwebs again". Concerning the arrests, it said these had "merely disrupted the active faction".

It said that from 1 April it'd resume activity with action against governments, organisations and agencies "and quite possibly the folk watching this video". It added: “As we speak, our battle fleet and members are planning some epic operations and pranks if you want to go down in history. To all of our supporters, we are hoping, almost pray, which you sustain your support as LulzSec never left, we only grew stronger.”

The three-minute video contains just one minute and 13 seconds of commentary, with the rest time stuffed with a version of the theme from the 1970s TV show Love Boat.

Some comment posters have suggested that the video is a hoax because it refers to April Fools' Day and that "LulzSec would never use YouTube".

The video was uploaded by ‘Fawkes Security', who uploaded various other videos on Saturday, which all point to a single movement called ‘Project Mayhem 2012' â€" a connection with Chuck Palahniuk's book Fight Club.

A statement posted on pastebin defines Project Mayhem as a movement to destabilise the established order that "becomes a true uncensorable super organism that predates the internet: an uncensorable civil cipherspace onto the cyberspace [sic]".

It further said: “Project Mayhem 2012 may be the biggest hackartistic joint challenge ever for the very top hacktivists, coders, crypto anarchists, cipher punks and non-violent civil rights, internet censorship and freedom of speech activists everywhere to collaborate to jointly brainstorm ideas and to develop Tyler.”

It added that "Obviously Project Mayhem 2012 will always respect the law" and said it should not fight against anything but "simply adapt around it, after which make it change to suit our swarm intelligence needs of peace, justice, freedom, beauty and truth".

The statement defined Tyler (a personality from Fight Club) as "a massively distributed and decentralised Wikipedia-style P2P cipherspace structure impregnable to censorship".

“Tyler will gather an unprecedented selection of the suitable hackers and coders ever to develop its structure from scratch, from the teachings learned from the Freenet, TOR, GNUnet, eMule, BitTorrent, I2P, Tribler and related projects.

“Tyler will end its beta testing phase the 5th of November 2012. Tyler will go wild on the web on 12th December 2012, massively flashmob style.

“On the 10 days that go from 12th December to 21st December 2012, the area will see an unprecedented amount of corporate, financial, military and state leaks so that it will has been secretly gathered by millions of conscientious citizens, vigilants [sic], whistleblowers and insiders worldwide, dormant cells of an international 'Fight Club' from all countries, patiently looking forward to the time to swarm the egregor's [sic] consciousness in perfect synchrony.”