Hackers
Many years from now, a child will look up at his father and ask him for a tale from his wild and untameable youth. The man, whose eyes will scream a life without regret, will chuckle quietly and pat him gently on the head.
“Well,” he will say, “There was this one time I drank all this Red Bull and stayed up all night and wrote this algorithm that made Twitter users’ accounts spam other users’ accounts with a message telling them there’s a really funny picture of them online and they should totally click it - and then they did and it sent it to all their friends!”
“Lol,” he will add, as the boy shakes his head and punches him in the knee cap. Hard.
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That pesky cyber-gang of hackers, Anonymous, struck again on the weekend, bringing down Senator Stephen Conroy’s website for almost 30 hours.
I know because I was there. It didn’t take much to predict that nerdy “hacktivists” against the internet filter would attack Government websites to coincide with real-life protests scheduled for Saturday.
Sure enough, a few clicks from Google led to a forum that set a date and time for the assault and, after a bit more digging, a chat room from which to watch the fireworks.
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Anonnewfag says:
Mace Windu- There is a difference between expressing one’s opinion and being an idiot. Disagreeing with Anonymous’ ways would be a logical and thoughtful use of freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not make everyone right, it just gives you the right to be heard. Nowhere did I say… Read more »
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Mace Windu says:
Annonnewfag - um aren’t you guys all about freedom of speech? like the freedom of speech Dickinson is exercising by calling you nerds? When u get all offended and threatening and “show us some respect”-y it proves for you it’s not actually about freedom of speech but about being a… Read more »
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