Posted on 11/03/2011 5:54:17 PM PDT by massmike
The rogue hacker group known as Anonymous posted a video on YouTube threatening to attack the Fox News website on Nov. 5 over the network's coverage of the Occupy protests.
Fox has been "alienating the American people by propagating the left-right false-dichotomy," an electronic voiceover in the Anonymous video says, "promoting fear by exaggerating the threat of terrorist attacks, supporting the corporate astro-turfed Tea party and trying to pass it off as a grass roots movement, using derogatory language to describe the popular, real grass-roots Occupy movement, and covering up corporate corruption by forcing your employees to lie on the air."
"By participating in an orchestrated attempt to misinform the general public you have chosen your side," the statement continues. "You claim to be fair and balanced, yet you have gone to court to protect your right to lie to the people. You have sacrificed your journalistic integrity to the dollar; unfortunately for you the dollar can not stop an idea whose time has come."
When contacted by Yahoo! News, Fox News said that "keeping security is top of mind, so this day is no different."
It's not the first time Fox has had to deal with hack attacks. In a July 4 stunt earlier this year, the Script Kiddies--an offshoot of the hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec--commandeered the Fox News Twitter account to report that President Barack Obama had been assassinated. At the time, Fox said it was cooperating with the Secret Service in an investigation of the incident.
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“propagating the left-right false-dichotomy”
Sounds like something Lenin would say!
Yet the OWS is a “real, populist’ movement lol
Where do these clowns get their material?
You would think this hacker group would appreciate freedom of the press.
It goes without saying if they threatened to attack NBC or MSNBC they would be declared a terrorist organization.
Hey Fox,
give me some IP addresses, and let the war begin.
Well ... with all the damage they caused the Mexican drug cartels, I’m sure Rupert Murdoch is hiding under his bed. /s
How can I help... Start with Shep Smith.. then Bill and Martha, then Heraldo or is it Geraldo.. then Chris Wallace then.... their so called experts Rove, Hume, Krauhammer then......
Wow. They’re going to temporarily interrupt the Fox News website on the slowest news day of the week. These are some serious bad-asses we’re dealing with.
You are as scary as OWS guys.
What are the Feds doing to stop criminal activity of this kind? Yeah, I know.
DOD,CIA,NSA,Seal Team 6 : find them, kill them.
Dump their bodies offshore in the China Sea.
I posted on FR several weeks ago that Leftist Talk Radio host Norman Goldman was using the airwaves asking “Anonymous” to rig the 2012 election. Something truly demonic is behind Anonymous, and it is nothing to be taken lightly.
give me some IP addresses, and let the war begin.
I was thining the same thing. Some of the best of us hobby hackers are white hat and are thrilled by a code match with moronic teenagers. ZDI and the thrill of the hunt.
Or Alex Jones.
I don’t like Anonymous threatening or doing this stuff to anyone or any company. I no longer give two chits for FOX, though.
Anonymous is doing it wrong. You don’t announce a terrorist attack beforehand, especially when you have no idea if it will actually be successful or not. It just gives your target time and opportunity to prepare against it, and when you fail, you look like incompetents.
What I find amusing in a very, very sad way....is that some of these smarty pants technerds that get caught: ala the doofus with the movie star nekkid pic that he figured out how to “share” with “the people”...is facing a HUGE prison sentence.
I think a lot of these technerds find the only place for acceptance and a sense of “fairness” is in the hacking arena. I don't want to paint with too broad a brush, but I know that some with Asperger’s Syndrome are quite lonely, feel marginalized, but with their smarts drift to the only place they can excel. Not every autistic is likely to do this, but boy, I see a problem here. I have no answers...Parents, watch your older teens that are smart but have low social skills very well. I feel for you.
Stupid as the OWS people too.
Stupid as the OWS people too.
“...supporting the corporate astro-turfed Tea party and trying to pass it off as a grass roots movement, using derogatory language to describe the popular, real grass-roots Occupy movement,..”
I did a double-take while reading this - really thought it was satire at first! John Semmens, is this one of yours?
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