Hijacked Fox News Twitter Account Falsely Claims Obama Shot Dead 290
Frankie70 writes with word of a Twitter-account hijacking that's raised eyebrows today, supplying a link to the account in question. From the Telegraph's account: "'The Twitter account of the American Fox News Politics team was compromised and used to falsely announce the death of the U.S. president. Hackers, who identified themselves as 'The Script Kiddies' and said they shared the spirit of prominent hacking group Anonymous, used the account to write: 'BREAKING NEWS: President @BarackObama assassinated, 2 gunshot wounds have proved too much. It's a sad 4th for #america. #obamadead RIP.'"
Re:HOW? (Score:4, Insightful)
I joke around here that this month's password is July2011 as it passes all the company's password requirements (1 upper, 2 digits, +7 length). I know for a fact that the boss uses it and 10 quid says others do too.
Listen to the IT Expert (moi?) when he's having a bad day? You may as well play with matches.
Hmm (Score:1, Insightful)
I fail to see how anyone noticed. This is about as correct as Fox's other news.
Re:HOW? (Score:1, Insightful)
No, it doesn't "ring true" except in the perverted fantasies of hyper-political partisan hacks who project their own failed fantasies onto real events in an effort to distort reality for perceived political gain.
false flag! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:HOW? (Score:5, Insightful)
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Shame it's only the one account (Score:2, Insightful)
When content falsely attributed to LulzSec started showing up on Pastebin, and their response was essentially "it's not real unless we tweet it", I really, *really* wanted someone to crack their Twitter account. A Twitter credentials dump could lead to some some serious lulz.
Better ways of getting them (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Why aren't they deleted yet? (Score:5, Insightful)
First, hack the account. Change the password.
Second, post a fake tweet or five, make them obvious and crass.
Third, post that the account has been brought back under the control of Fox News and locked down while the hack is investigated. Change the password again.
Finally, start posting some more fake tweets an hour or so later, but be more subtle about it.
Re:Only news because it is Fox, not CNN or MSNBC.. (Score:5, Insightful)
So I guess you're voting for the Republican candidate in 2012 then?
Re:false flag! (Score:2, Insightful)
Really not even funny to joke about. Although I dislike the messages of MSNBC, I would NEVER suggest their censorship. People like you will lead to the destruction of our 1st amendment rights.
Re:HOW? (Score:0, Insightful)
What's funny is almost all of the shit you whine about came about from Republican presidents, Republican controlled Congresses and conservative controlled Supreme Courts. Poor little conservatards.
Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... (Score:1, Insightful)
The religious tensions I am sure had nothing to do with the fact that they came over here and fucking killed us.
Of course if only we were not westernized and prosperous then they would love us. Right?
I do not like people that have simple minds. They are easily swayed by emotions at first then can never be moved my fact again.
Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:HOW? (Score:3, Insightful)
If I had mod points I'd be modding it down. It's just an ad hominem rant aimed at a general group of people, using an altered version of what was really said. The parent was Trolling and caught himself another Troll.
Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... (Score:2, Insightful)
Do you always add shitloads of crazy stuff to the posts you comment on or is that just when you do not have a leg to stand on?
I can not really see in my post where I advocated killing all Muslims.
I do though agree that any Christian church that keeps its mouth shut when Christians do horrible things should be looked at closely and trusted not at all.
Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... (Score:2, Insightful)
Because you blame the religious tensions on terrorists. The religious tensions have absolutely nothing to do with the actual 9/11 attack, and everything to do with America (as a whole, not as in every individual) started equating Muslim and Terrorist afterwards. If instead, people had been intelligent and gone "Religion is only an excuse for their actions, not the reason," and not decided that bombing the fuck out of every country the terrorists had a camp in, there wouldn't be the rise in religious tension.
So, you yourself are just as guilty as the "bomb the fuck out of everyone" crapheads in promoting religious intolerance by saying "They came and killed us and that increased religious tensions." You are laying the blame for the attacks at the foot of their religion, instead of where it belongs. On the attackers, and their POLITICAL AND MORAL ideology. Their religion may have helped form those, but to blame their religion is to also lump every Christian in with Westboro Baptist Church.
Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... (Score:1, Insightful)
Not only are we supposed to give you weapons and training to defeat those who have invaded your country but it is also our responsibility to build your country?
Well my guess is you just need to hate and that is your excuse.
Pretty bad one though.
Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... (Score:5, Insightful)
Tax revenue raises itself, when the economy grows, and is more likely to do if the economy isn't being bled by government and kept from growing.
All the money that comes into the government goes out again, usually into economic circulation. So while it's in the interests of the economy to cut taxes on economic activity, it's also worth taxing money that would otherwise be taken out of circulation. And yet it's tax cuts on the income of the rich (which contributes far less to economic activity than that of the poor) which the republicans are most strongly advocating.
Re:ironically it's not far from the truth... (Score:3, Insightful)
Except the rich have to do something with their money, usually putting it in a bank, or investing it, which is used to fund loans to other businesses or individuals, which generates jobs or allows people to get mortgages.
Rich people are not Scrooge McDuck, they don't build a massive vault and just hoard all their money. If they actually did that, the effective amount of money in circulation would decrease, and the spending power would increase. The way to misallocate resources in the economy is to pay people to do things they shouldn't be doing, like overly high unemployment benefit, fraudulent disability benefits, useless jobs, or excessive numbers of prison places.
Money the government spends on things people wouldn't buy on their own (agricultural subsidies, bank bailouts) create inefficiency in the economy and slow growth.
Re:Not even trying, are we? (Score:4, Insightful)
So true. That's one stroke of genius by President Obama. By selecting Biden for VP he made sure even the KKK pray for the health of the President every night.
Well, if it's a tactic it's a bipartisan one. If McCain had won you could swear every democrat would pray for his health too, or there'd be President Palin...