PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked

wiredmikey writes "Late Sunday night, hackers gained access to several areas of PBS Web servers and were able publish a fake news story on a PBS news blog. The group also published PBS internal user login information that they were able to siphon out of PBS databases. The fake story was about rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996 after being shot in Las Vegas, being been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand. A group going by the name of 'LulzSec' claimed responsibility for the hack, saying the attack was a protest against a PBS Frontline broadcast last week about WikiLeaks."

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Manning is a hero.

[headkase]

And he's going to pay a heavy price for his actions: there is no doubt. However, what he has done is necessary for a functioning democracy. If you say: leaders should not ever be embarrassed by their actions and what really happens in back-rooms must forever remain secret, well, is that in line with the principles of a democracy? What I've seen Wikileaks expose so far, in the controlled manner they are releasing them: not a sudden flood of documents with no vetting as it has been portrayed in some news sites I won't bother to mention, really shows how two-faced governments are in how they relate to each other and then the story they feed the public of the same events. I'd rather know: my representative is really an asshole, not the smiling baby-kisser his press release tells me he is. Perhaps, just perhaps, it'll change a vote - and some days I think the USA is already too far gone for that to even matter.