Hacker Sends Out Fake Tsunami Warning On Twitter

An anonymous reader writes "A Twitter account belonging to an official adviser of the Indonesian president has been broken into by a hacker who posted a warning that a tsunami was heading for Jakarta. Andi Arief is Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's disaster management adviser and a frequent user of Twitter. But when he lost control of his account, a tsunami warning was sent out to Twitter users."

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Re:I pity the fool.

[cheekyjohnson]

In the United States, where free speech is considered to be an inalienable right, it is nevertheless illegal to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater.

That's because people in the United States only pretend to consider free speech an inalienable right, but want to ban everything that they find offensive (or ban speech that they were retarded enough to listen to).