HAHAHAHA!!! Oh.... HAHAHA!!!

HAHA, even after reading /b/, I still have to laugh a whole bunch.
 
I think that Fox 11 logo needs to be replaced with a The Onion logo. Oh man.

I wonder who the kid was who claimed to be a former "anonymous" hacker.

Just hilarious :D
 
What's so funny? Am I missing something?
 
o-n0z!
 
EdFred said:
What's so funny? Am I missing something?
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I guess what these guys are saying is it's all BS, just a bunch of 15 year olds spoofing on people, and so it's "hysterical". Well, yeah, FOX took the bait bigtime and it's not likely it's the cyber terrorism they're saying it is, but that doesn't mean it has no consequences.

I don't see it that way, personally - they're screwing up people's lives, messing with them, 'Net-wise and IRL. At least one family thought the threat was real (which makes it a crime).

It just doesn't seem funny. At the very LEAST it is chicken-sh**, cowardly cyber-bullying. It has repercussions for people who did NOT choose to participate willingly, which makes it wrong.
 
Ok, lemme give everyone the rundown.

NOTE: The chan websites are known to have large amounts of extremely offensive material, INCLUDING spats of child pornography. IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED TO VISIT ANY OF THE SITES DISCUSSED HERE. The websites in question invariably end in "chan" (e.g. ___chan.org).

There are a bunch of imageboards (think something like a forum, but to start a thread you have to post a picture of something) that are collectively known as chans (Short for channel, which has something to do with the name of the imageboard software).

Anyhow, these imageboard websites are setup so that anyone can post on them, and by default your username is "Anonymous". You can change it to whatever you want, and there's no real way to prove you're who you claim to be, because there's no real login system. So the people on the sites will make jokes about how "We are anonymous" and "Anonymous does not forgive" etc.

There are particular areas on these imageboards where they talk about "raids" or "invasions" etc. Basically it's like a flash mob. One person puts info out there and the masses flock to it. A lot of times it's a phone number or IM name, and sometimes it's login information. 99.9% of the time when login information is posted, it was gained from the stupidity of the end user (phishing or a virus), not by hacking.

In essence, the entire video was, from the standpoint of someone who has seen these imageboards, absolutely hilarious. Personally I think that the folks interviewed were all in on the scam, and got the news station good.
 
I guess I'm getting old now, because all of this strikes me as an extremely moronic use of one's time, even as a young teenager. But then again, look where I am right now ;)
 
EdFred said:
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etsisk said:
It just doesn't seem funny. At the very LEAST it is chicken-sh**, cowardly cyber-bullying. It has repercussions for people who did NOT choose to participate willingly, which makes it wrong.
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Fox blew up a car, relating to cyber terrorists. Yep, blew up a car.

"Destroy, die, attack" out of nowhere.

"I've had 7 different passwords, and they got them all." :rolleyes: without a trojan, this doesn't happen.

Music straight out of a Tom Clancy movie.

1 Phone call used multiple times to sound like it is done over and over again. Worse, no explanation behind the phone call.

Also - putting gay porn in place of someone's myspace page is hilarious. The fact that his girlfriend LEFT HIM because someone "hacked" his page makes me think that the gay porn probably involved him.

"There are literally thousands of stolen passwords on that site," reporter flips through a stack of about 1000 pages of paper. I guarandamntee you that he was not holding a list of passwords when he flipped through it.

The entire piece was done to try to connect with people's fear of hackers. It is a perfect example of what is wrong with the media today. Play on the fears of those who don't understand.

And finally, there's the whole "4-Chan" is a joke, and so is "Anonymous." By joke, I don't mean they don't actually TRY to do stuff, but how far can you really get when you're 12 years old and you're on your daddy's e-machine?

They messed with some emo chick's life when she dared to challenge them via YouTube. People saw it as ultimate internet detective stuff, but in reality, she had her address, phone number, picture and real name on the internet. They called her and said a bunch of stuff, and she comes back to the internet, crying, calling uncle, and giving up.

My name, my address, and my phone number can be found in different places on the internet, but that is a calculated risk for me. I don't care if someone screws with me, I find it funny. But if you don't, don't put the stuff on the internet so that a 12 year old can harrass you.

Oh and finally, I find it hillarious whenever chan gets news coverage. Because they are the tools of the internet, when they get coverage, its like a little piece of the useful parts of the internet die.
 
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