Now This Here Just Blew My Mind:

The unprecedented hacker feeding frenzy that has surrounded Sony since early April has been fueled by complex motives: The hacker collective Anonymous originally barraged Sony for its lawsuit against hacker George Hotz. And the newly-emerged group LulzSec continues to pound the company for, well, the “lulz”–the pure joy of destruction. “If you want ethics, go cry to Anonymous. True lulz fans, stay tuned in,” the group wrote on its Twitter after hacking three more Sony sites on Saturday.

But ask one lone Lebanese hacker who has been targeting Sony for three weeks why he continues to torment the company, and he offers an even more ambiguous answer: It began as “justice,” says the hacker who calls himself “Idahc.” Then it became “a game.” And now, he argues, he’s actually trying to make the Web more secure. “I did this to push Sony to pay more attention on their security and to show everyone that I.T security is fundamental,” he writes to me in an email. “I don’t hack for ‘lulz’ but for moral reasons.”

Idahc says he’s an 18-year old Lebanese computer science student, working from a “poor Internet connection” and a laptop, hiding his identity with the usual tricks such as VPNs and proxy servers that disguise his origin, as well as hacking into his neighbor’s network. From that humble setup, he’s managed to evade arrest while hacking Sony three times, most recently compromising a database of Sony Portugal users last Thursday by exploiting three different types of Web vulnerabilities on one page: A cross-site scripting flaw, a SQL injection, and an iFrame injection....

COMPLETE ARTICLE : : http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/06/13/meet-the-lebanese-hacker-tormenting-sony-for-moral-reasons/