Hackers fill epilepsy forums with flashing images

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d5/Snowcrash.jpg/200px-Snowcrash.jpg

hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images

lol unmitigated wankers. fuck off and die.

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955

No, that's an autism forum.

What petty twatwafflery. I do hope the perpetrators trip down some stairs into the path of a moving bus.

Half of me thinks this is unforgivably mean spirited. The other half...is going to hell.

this is cruel but it definitely fits the spirit of a "hack" ie finding a ingenious workaround for something nobody's ever done before

No, that's an autism forum.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, May 8, 2008 10:54 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

haha nice 1 !

This is the kind of thing that's hilarious until you actually do it, and then WHOOPS! you're a huge asshole.

which circle of hell is reserved for adults w/early adolescent sense of humor?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/index.jsp

The sense of humor isn't the problem.

i was referring to RabiesAngentleman

and i wouldn't call what the hackers are doing an attempt at humor

Of course it is.

And it is funny, the problem is they put it into practice, at which point all hilarity ceased.

I don't really see what's ingenious about embedding a load of links to flashing web pages?

Well it's not clever. Just kinda funny, like pushing down an old woman.

What a bunch of cunts. Pain upon them.

Yeah what Pashmina said.

not clever. just kinda funny, like low-grade messageboard trolling

it's clever to think of people who are susceptible to real world illness and trigger it remotely - this is why people write books like snow crash and we read them and think wow thats clever

"I posted flashing images to an epilepsy forum" by Anal Cunt

lol buhzing. Just play it cool already. (xxp)

I had an old friend who was into some low grade hacking back in high school. Thought he was real discreet until outta nowhere the local police called asking him to help them catch a couple of hackers who were actually doing serious stuff within the local law enforcement's computer systems.

Caught one of 'em and got 500 bucks. Kinda makes me wonder how the police knew exactly what he was up to but lacked the capabilities to do anything about the hackers themselves.

x-post -- What, no "(You're Gay)" at the end of that?

Correct, Ned!

Yeah the first thing I thought of was it could've been subject matter from that lame fake tracklisting for the 'new' AC album

God, what a fucking dick move.

I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline

Waht?

Fuck that, when my cousins were teenagers they threw my kitten in a pit and then stoned it to death in front of me. That is to say, kids can be real fucking dicks.

This might have been funny on, say, the Simpsons, perhaps worked into a better gag. It's not so funny when it affects real people, tho. Which, I think, attests to the perpetrators' inability to properly conceptualize the gap between the "cartoonish" bits appearing on their displays and the real people connected to them. I.e., if you've had few socialization experiences with strangers, then the "funny people inside the computer" are just that; they disappear when you turn off the computer anyways, rite?

Which, I think, attests to the perpetrators' inability to properly conceptualize the gap between the "cartoonish" bits appearing on their displays and the real people connected to them.

That's called sociopathy, libcrypt.

Can we get these fuckmeisters institutionalized in some nightmarish 18th Century asylum based on my armchair analysis?

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=2955

-- carne asada, Thursday, May 8, 2008 10:53 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

No, that's an autism forum.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, May 8, 2008 10:54 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

it's aspergers get it right

I'm sorry my facetious armchair diagnosis of the noize board tards differs slightly from yours.

dra-ma

Fuck this and Abbott's teenage cousins.

abbotts cousins are fuckin assholes

for fucking real! This was when I was 11.

I want to put a moratorium on assholes.

!!!, I overlooked Abbott's post. Depressing.

I remember my brother and some neighborhood kids torturing this frog as a kid, I was so horrified.

shit, abbott, that's bleak -- and i say that as someone who's spent all afternoon studying social psychology (summary of my notes: people = shit, the majority of the time). dare i ask if you're still in touch with them/have ever discussed it with them?

Haha no those fuckers and I hate each other. Plus I have 55+ cousins so I can't keep track of them all. I don't remember if it was Charlie and David or Wayne and Ryan or whichever of my uncle Jerome's kids it even was...

^^ look out, this is how inbreeding happens

wau. wtf. :(

I remember the Ingmar Bergman stand-in in one of Robertson Davies' novels talking about how even he couldn't make a movie about the cruelty of children. Pretty much sums up my feelings about the first dozen or so years of life. High school is a slightly different scene, I think.

No telling how old these 'hackers' were, of course, but I'd bet not over fifteen.

Half of me thinks this is unforgivably mean spirited. The other half...is going to hell.

-- RabiesAngentleman, Thursday, May 8, 2008 10:57 AM (Thursday, May 8, 2008 10:57 AM) Bookmark Link

otm

xxpost no that just reminded me of parents ... my mom has something like 55 cousins, and she and my dad are like cousins once removed or something. in my parent's religious community genealogy is a pretty important thing, mainly to keep track of who your family is and who your family isn't, to make sure you're not unwittingly marrying your second cousin or something like that.

This would have been hilarious if they had attacked a forum for Epileptic Juggalos or Furries instead of just General Non-Juggalo/Furry Epileptics.

You have much more faith in the cruelty of children failing to extend long into adulthood than I do, Oilyrags.

See, but that's the thing with kids. They start out essentially sociopathic, and the guiding hand of a loving parent is intended to steer them towards empathy. But, unfortunately, a lack of empathy doesn't render a potential parent sterile. So there you go.

^^ this idea is outdated and not necessarily true.

I WOULD HAVE FISTS WITH ALL THIS ABBOT-KINS

the argument against that line of protestant/freudian thinking (humans need to master their unchecked self-destructive id) is that humans are social and cooperative animals, not solitary hunters. if we were born sociopaths, we would've gone extinct millions of years ago.

i think it's much, much simpler to make the case that humans start out essentially empathetic, and the guiding hand of a parent with a lack of empathy steers them toward sociopathy

moonship otm, and yet...

http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/03/28/battling_seizure_robots.jpg

yeah, seconded moonship otm

moonship OTM, says the dude with the psychology exam tomorrow (although developmental psy = aaaargh)

Scientology to blame?:

"Users of this site did not actually attack those individuals. The Church of Scientology posted numerous threads across many (websites), and then informed people that Anonymous had been attacking victims of epilepsy," the letter said.

"They did this under their 'fair game' policy, to ruin the public opinion of Anonymous, to lessen the effect of their lawful protests against their virulent organization (sic)."

Bloody eBaum's World.

weird! well i'm sure the FBI will get to the bottom of it!

ITR categorically denies any involvement in this attack.

i can also confirm this was not a hostile canadian javascript attack.

Caught one of 'em and got 500 bucks. Kinda makes me wonder how the police knew exactly what he was up to but lacked the capabilities to do anything about the hackers themselves.

see The Wire; truant hoppers vs. barksdale, the only reason you ever bother with the former is to get them to turn on the latter

or like the once when moonship axed me why I wasn't doing anything about a couple of douchebags in china claiming they'd hacked the pentagon like a bazillion times

I'm really amazed this is just showing up in AP though? this was months ago

http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2008/03/epilepsy

this reminds me of 2004 when jw embedded atari animated penis noses everywhere on the site.
good times.