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Griefers Assault Epileptics Via Message Board
An anonymous reader tips us to a story up at Wired reporting on what may be the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on victims. Last Saturday, griefers posted hundreds of bogus messages on the support forums of the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation that used JavaScript and strobing GIFs to trigger migraines and seizures in users. For about 3% of the 50 million epileptics worldwide, flashing lights and colors can trigger seizures. "'I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts,' says [an IT worker in Ohio]. 'I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak.' ... Circumstantial evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective of griefers best known for their recent war on the Church of Scientology. The first flurry of posts on the epilepsy forum referenced the site EBaumsWorld, which is much hated by Anonymous. And forum members claim they found a message board thread — since deleted — planning the attack at 7chan.org, a group stronghold."
There is not much to say, really. These people lack any form of human decency. Attacking objectively bad groups like Scientology is somewhat justifiable, but to target people with disabilities is the lowest of the low. Fuck them.
DISREGARD THAT I SUCK COCKS
...and tell them to expect US.
This is Anonymous -chan anonymous, goin' back to their roots -you know, exploiting weaknesses in habbo hotel and secondlife; phishing hundreds of myspace passwords and putting up shock-images, harassing forums for disabled people and children.
I don't know who the fuck you are, but you're not Anonymous.
You are Legion -legions of LJ emo-fags, amirite?
You do not forgive -but you don't have the teeth to get a single story on Digg, much less take out someone like Hal Turner, amirte?
You do not forget -clearly you have forgotten your roots if you condemn this after so many raids have been done by your group which have cost people jobs (..IS A FUCKING POKEMON) and drove people into suicide.
And yes, we expect you, simply because you myspace faggots are so pervasive on the internet that one would be a fool not expect you to waltz in and start fagging up the place.
tl;dr -True Anonymous fucks up cripples, Fake anonymous BAAAAAWWWWWWWSSS about suckers getting chumped by Co$
gb2/enturbulation.org, faggot -and tell them that the Old-school Anonymous are sick of them ruining our name
Yeah, you can even say fuck if you aren't a spineless anonymous twat.
Congratulations bootlick.
Try not to take me more seriously than I take myself.
"may be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed."
Sounds like a corporate version of Islam.
Life is not for the lazy.
If you think giving random people epileptic fits is a valid expression of "moral disapproval", and you're such a spineless coward that you can't even take ownership of your morals, but instead need to hide behind anonymity, then the only right you deserve is the right to a fair and speedy trial. Asshole.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?