What's so funny? Am I missing something?
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.
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."
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.