Don't Trust Hackers: President Obama Not Dead
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A) In this particular case, it was fucking Twitter that was compromised, not a news site. I agree with triggrhappy94 on this one.Twilight_guy said:
B) I'd agree with you if, like, someone was systematically shutting down all news outlets ever, but. That's not really what's happening here. Internet security is a farce. We should all know that by now.
This is the kind of shit hackers should do(not necessarily say the president is dead. You get the idea). No real damage, just a little bit of fun with some social media.
I didn't call it a major news source. I was talking about a theoretical attack on news sources in general. In addition, I'd actually would like to know what portion of their news people get from twitter. I know for a time people got a surprisingly high portion of their news from parody shows like the Daily Show.mojodamm said:
Aside from that, your notion of legitimacy and authority have clouded your judgement. "Major news source" is entirely defined by where people tend to get news from. It could be anything from Twitter to the local TV news to newspapers to the back of an oatmeal box. I don't know what the major news sources are but don't immediately dismiss Twitter as not being one. Don't conflate your notion of legitimate news sources and major news sources.
I always love to read stories about Fox News on this site. All the comments are so laughably predictable. "Faux News is the Great Satan of the media, while all the others are undeserving of my scorn because they're left-wing, er I mean unbiased."
I would,but I'm not enough of a sheep to follow them just to read the comments.Yvl9921 said:
Faux News is either stating the obvious,being a bunch of insensitive liers,or just mentioning news that isn't news anymore.
"The San Francisco-based technology company issued a statement saying Fox News has identified that it was first compromised in another way, which in turn allowed for the alleged perpetrators to access the network's Twitter account.
"While Twitter does monitor accounts for brute-force login attempts and similar methods of attack, we're unable to anticipate compromises that take place due to offsite behavior," Twitter spokesman Matt Graves said in its statement.
Reading between the lines: someone at Fox got tricked into giving up the password, probably via a dupe email or fake log-in page. Would-be-hackers call it "social engineering", because it sounds fancy and legitimate. Actual hackers call it "ha ha, some stupid asshole fucked up".
I mean, what exactly was the purpose of this whole thing? I get the idea, and yeah, it's pretty funny -- but now that The Scriptkiddies have come thumbing their nose and claiming credit for the tweets, like the kid who left a bag of shit on the principal's desk signed "The School Janitor" and then tells everyone about it, they've removed the mystery from the story, and any element of discreditation towards Fox is lost. It's no longer "Wtf, Fox Tweeted that Obama died?!" It's "Did you hear Fox's twitter got hacked? And somebody posted that Obama was dead or something?"
They've managed to turn FOX INTO THE VICTIM.
COME the FUCK on!
And I know these dudes have no great fear of the party van, but hijacking a major news media outlet to proclaim the assassination of the US president is exactly the kind of thing that is going to garner fed attention, especially when the last THREE annual threat assessment reports from the International Intelligence Community to the US Senate have listed domestic political activism and cyber-terrorism as THE two big threats they should start becoming afraid of.
Granted this is all completely fucking inevitable. The glove was thrown down for good and all when Assange published the Iraq files, and kicked off proper this whole new age of ego-driven PR battles masquerading as information warfare.
Good at forging emails?
Know how to work a DDOS app?
Got a gripe against some major American institution?
Well then good news! Now you, too, can take part in the sweeping cultural wave that is HACKTIVISM: that exotic-sounding word made up by 40-something talking heads to spice up the narrative of a bunch of bored white suburbanite 20-something 4chan expatriates, dicking around on the internet, throwing rocks into the meme-stream and giggling at the ripples.
I mean good god. This shit just exhausts me. From every conceivable angle, it is just so. Fucking. Stupid.
"While Twitter does monitor accounts for brute-force login attempts and similar methods of attack, we're unable to anticipate compromises that take place due to offsite behavior," Twitter spokesman Matt Graves said in its statement.
Reading between the lines: someone at Fox got tricked into giving up the password, probably via a dupe email or fake log-in page. Would-be-hackers call it "social engineering", because it sounds fancy and legitimate. Actual hackers call it "ha ha, some stupid asshole fucked up".
I mean, what exactly was the purpose of this whole thing? I get the idea, and yeah, it's pretty funny -- but now that The Scriptkiddies have come thumbing their nose and claiming credit for the tweets, like the kid who left a bag of shit on the principal's desk signed "The School Janitor" and then tells everyone about it, they've removed the mystery from the story, and any element of discreditation towards Fox is lost. It's no longer "Wtf, Fox Tweeted that Obama died?!" It's "Did you hear Fox's twitter got hacked? And somebody posted that Obama was dead or something?"
They've managed to turn FOX INTO THE VICTIM.
COME the FUCK on!
And I know these dudes have no great fear of the party van, but hijacking a major news media outlet to proclaim the assassination of the US president is exactly the kind of thing that is going to garner fed attention, especially when the last THREE annual threat assessment reports from the International Intelligence Community to the US Senate have listed domestic political activism and cyber-terrorism as THE two big threats they should start becoming afraid of.
Granted this is all completely fucking inevitable. The glove was thrown down for good and all when Assange published the Iraq files, and kicked off proper this whole new age of ego-driven PR battles masquerading as information warfare.
Good at forging emails?
Know how to work a DDOS app?
Got a gripe against some major American institution?
Well then good news! Now you, too, can take part in the sweeping cultural wave that is HACKTIVISM: that exotic-sounding word made up by 40-something talking heads to spice up the narrative of a bunch of bored white suburbanite 20-something 4chan expatriates, dicking around on the internet, throwing rocks into the meme-stream and giggling at the ripples.
I mean good god. This shit just exhausts me. From every conceivable angle, it is just so. Fucking. Stupid.
So...Sony and Fox News work together or something? Because they seem to have the same problems with security...
No, but in all seriousness, why must they always come up with the same lame joke? How many presidents have been 'assassinated' by now?
Thus, this isn't a joke. A joke is posting something like "Fox News cast picks their butt" or something like that. Even though I don't endorse hacking and I hate it with passion (There, there, my PS3. Let us never speak of it again...), I would have laughed if they did something actually funny. But THAT kind of joke as they call it is just trolling.
Why troll the nation? What good could possibly come out of it? It's not even for the lulz. And on Independence day? What are they, 4 years old? I could come up with more realistic jokes when I was 10, for Pete's sake.
No, but in all seriousness, why must they always come up with the same lame joke? How many presidents have been 'assassinated' by now?
Thus, this isn't a joke. A joke is posting something like "Fox News cast picks their butt" or something like that. Even though I don't endorse hacking and I hate it with passion (There, there, my PS3. Let us never speak of it again...), I would have laughed if they did something actually funny. But THAT kind of joke as they call it is just trolling.
Why troll the nation? What good could possibly come out of it? It's not even for the lulz. And on Independence day? What are they, 4 years old? I could come up with more realistic jokes when I was 10, for Pete's sake.
I live in the sticks and I don't have cable so BBC World News followed by PBS Newshour is the only non internet based news I've had in years. Its tough to bias world news in 23 and a half minutes, but the newshour seems to balance their ideological leanings by letting pundits scream and holler and talk over one another for the first two or three segments until Hari @ the newsdesk does his bit. I <3 being able to see Marcia Coyle for Supreme Court news and Shields and Brooks on Fridays. But, as with all news outlets, its one part information, one part entertainment, and two parts paying attention to see if there's an ulterior motive (So and so is an 'underwriter' for the newshour, etc.)commasplice said:
