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Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead

Posted by timothy on from the how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people dept.

Frankie70 writes with word of a Twitter-account hijacking that's raised eyebrows today, supplying a link to the account in question. From the Telegraph's account: "'The Twitter account of the American Fox News Politics team was compromised and used to falsely announce the death of the U.S. president. Hackers, who identified themselves as 'The Script Kiddies' and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group Anonymous, used the account to write: 'BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP.'"

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  1. I refuse to believe it by imadork · · Score: 5, Funny

    until I see the long form death certificate....

  2. false flag! by Titan1080 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every one of these 'hacker' news stories brings us one step closer to an internet kill switch. The government knows that the riots will begin soon in the US, and they are trying to set things up to make it hard to communicate. Beware.

    1. Re:false flag! by Jeremi · · Score: 5, Funny

      The government knows that the riots will begin soon in the US, and they are trying to set things up to make it hard to communicate. Beware.

      Of course the most insidious part of the government's plan was the pre-planting of paranoid conspiracy theories on all the major tech sites, so that when the time came, the Internet's system operators would turn on each other in a ferocious bloodbath of nerd terror.

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  3. Re:HOW? by RevWaldo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Words go in, tweets come out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that.

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  4. Re:HOW? by RMingin · · Score: 5, Informative

    Entertainingly, that's exactly how I'm selecting my password at work currently. The one system expires my password every month, and demands upper, lower, and number. Last month was June2011, before that May20112011 (eight char minimum), and April2011. These are atrocious and horrible passwords, but I fed it good ones like g0g0g4dg3tp4$$w0rd until I couldn't remember them anymore, That and the one time I got PUNISHED, PUBLICLY, for forgetting the horrible new password I'd been required to choose.....

    If you're going to implement password cycling, keep it reasonable. The system I access has nothing more sensitive than the last four digits of a credit card number. We really don't need monthly cycling unless we're dealing with something really secure.

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  5. Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... by m50d · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Tax revenue raises itself, when the economy grows, and is more likely to do if the economy isn't being bled by government and kept from growing.

    All the money that comes into the government goes out again, usually into economic circulation. So while it's in the interests of the economy to cut taxes on economic activity, it's also worth taxing money that would otherwise be taken out of circulation. And yet it's tax cuts on the income of the rich (which contributes far less to economic activity than that of the poor) which the republicans are most strongly advocating.

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