When Interwebs Attack

After hearing about the Great Emo Purge of 2008, I despaired of finding another story with the right balance of awkward amusement. But a group of hackers took control of a forum run by an epilepsy support group:

[A] group of griefers (assuming to be members of Anonymous) managed to invade a support forum established by the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation and use JavaScript code and messages littered with flashing animations to effectively assault dozens of visitors who suffer from the disorder.

Yes, its wrong. Very wrong. But imagining the hapless web denizen unwittingly navigating to a forum only to find a seizure…

6 thoughts on “When Interwebs Attack

  1. “assuming to be members of Anonymous?” Unless the Epilepsy Foundation is tied to scientology in some way i doubt their involvement. It definitely reeks of 4chan however.

    (And as far as pranks go this one is devilishly clever. Still horrible.)

  2. Wow, attacking disabled people for humor, genius. Next they can spam child abuse forums with child porn. Sometimes it’s comforting to know that people die.

  3. “Wow, attacking disabled people for humor, genius. Next they can spam child abuse forums with child porn. ”

    Don’t worry, they have. Not 4chan but one of the invasion boards like 7chan or 420chan…

  4. I think any internet based attack using meme’s or something like it is going to be assumed to be from Anonymous, because that is only hacker group media outlets have heard of. which makes no damn sense…

  5. I really don’t understand why people are blaming Anonymous for this thing. Anyone can be anonymous on-line, people need to take a look at the websites these griefers operate on.

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