Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church on Live Talk Show
The Westboro Baptist Church, the hate-spewing religious organization known for picketing the funerals of soldiers and running such sites as godhatesfags.com, stirred up some attention for itself earlier this week with a claim that it had been U.S. Copyright Office [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107893-Westboro-Baptists-Stage-Fake-Anonymous-Threat]. But Anonymous denied responsibility, saying the whole thing was a ham-fisted publicity stunt perpetrated by the WBC itself. "When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it," the group said in a press release. "We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'"
But poke any bear long enough and it will eventually turn on you, as the WBC found out during the latest episode of the YouTube [http://www.davidpakman.com/program-archive/] earlier today, the show featured a "debate" between Shirley Phelps-Roper of the WBC and a representative of Anonymous that unsurprisingly grew rather contentious. The Anonymous rep denied that the group had any involvement with attacks that recently took down various WBC sites, saying it was actually the work of a hacker known as "Jester," while Phelps-Roper was insistent that the whole thing was good for her church because of the attention it brought to its message.
But around the seven minute mark, in response to Phelps-Rogers' statement that Anonymous could not take down its site, the Anonymous rep mentioned that he was working on something; a little after eight minutes, he noted that it had in fact hacked the WBC download site at that very moment and posted a message from the group. "We just did it right now, this very second," the rep said. "You just told us we can't do anything to harm your websites. We just did."
The site, at browsershots.org [http://downloads.westborobaptistchurch.com].
via: Twitter [http://twitter.com/AllenVarney/status/40826529361428480]
Permalink
Tired of being goaded by the Westboro Baptist Church during a live internet talk show, the online collective known as Anonymous hacked one of its websites in the middle of the confrontation.The Westboro Baptist Church, the hate-spewing religious organization known for picketing the funerals of soldiers and running such sites as godhatesfags.com, stirred up some attention for itself earlier this week with a claim that it had been U.S. Copyright Office [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/107893-Westboro-Baptists-Stage-Fake-Anonymous-Threat]. But Anonymous denied responsibility, saying the whole thing was a ham-fisted publicity stunt perpetrated by the WBC itself. "When Anonymous says we support free speech, we mean it," the group said in a press release. "We count Beatrice Hall among our Anonymous forebears: 'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'"
But poke any bear long enough and it will eventually turn on you, as the WBC found out during the latest episode of the YouTube [http://www.davidpakman.com/program-archive/] earlier today, the show featured a "debate" between Shirley Phelps-Roper of the WBC and a representative of Anonymous that unsurprisingly grew rather contentious. The Anonymous rep denied that the group had any involvement with attacks that recently took down various WBC sites, saying it was actually the work of a hacker known as "Jester," while Phelps-Roper was insistent that the whole thing was good for her church because of the attention it brought to its message.
But around the seven minute mark, in response to Phelps-Rogers' statement that Anonymous could not take down its site, the Anonymous rep mentioned that he was working on something; a little after eight minutes, he noted that it had in fact hacked the WBC download site at that very moment and posted a message from the group. "We just did it right now, this very second," the rep said. "You just told us we can't do anything to harm your websites. We just did."
The site, at browsershots.org [http://downloads.westborobaptistchurch.com].
via: Twitter [http://twitter.com/AllenVarney/status/40826529361428480]
Permalink
