Reply With QuoteSomeday sitting in front of your computer will be as dangerous to your health as sitting down in front of a loaded gun, or having sex with Paris Hilton.
Cute and spicy.
From Slashdot:
An anonymous reader tips us to a story up at Wired reporting on what may be the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on victims. Last Saturday, griefers posted hundreds of bogus messages on the support forums of the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation that used JavaScript and strobing GIFs to trigger migraines and seizures in users. For about 3% of the 50 million epileptics worldwide, flashing lights and colors can trigger seizures.
"'I don't fall over and convulse, but it hurts,' says [an IT worker in Ohio]. 'I was on the phone when it happened, and I couldn't move and couldn't speak.' ... Circumstantial evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective of griefers best known for their recent war on the Church of Scientology. The first flurry of posts on the epilepsy forum referenced the site EBaumsWorld, which is much hated by Anonymous. And forum members claim they found a message board thread — since deleted — planning the attack at 7chan.org, a group stronghold."
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Someday sitting in front of your computer will be as dangerous to your health as sitting down in front of a loaded gun, or having sex with Paris Hilton.
Originally Posted by William Oldham
As fucked up as this is, it's really clever.
Nordic Warrior
A part of me finds this funny actually....
I shouldn't laugh, but dammit it's funny.
You sir, are a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.
metal = rude
What's a griefer?
Electric bug
Anonymous my ass. They're after Scientologists, which is a perfectly fair target that will always be funny to rag on. Epileptics, though? No, not buying it.
Also, I hope the people who did this get nailed for assault.
James
the original and best
lol a troll.
also this story is funny.
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Maybe CoS are the real attackers. I wouldn't put it past them.
Wu-Tang is for the children!
If the thread was called "The Best Epilepsy Medication". I wouldn't be suprised.
Quick zephyrs blow, vexing daft Jim.
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