Hackers “Seize-rolled” Epilepsy Sufferers in a Support Forum

• Ashe
  March 30th, 2008 at 7:57 pm

  That is messed up! My mother suffers from a pretty bad form of epilepsy and I just cannot fathom anyone doing something this stupid. They must have known it would cause harm…

• VonSkippy
  March 30th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

  I’m pretty sure Cd’A is in IDAHO not OHIO.

• sal
  March 30th, 2008 at 8:23 pm

  It doesn’t take a hacker to do that. Just a jerk.

• Aramax
  March 30th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

  It’s all fun games until someones gets killed.

  I never liked those animation website that can cause epiliptic seizure… they’re pointless and annoying.

  I was sad when they said the video of the song “Run” from Gnarls Barkley caused pain for epileptic. It’s a good video and I would have liked to have it on my Ipod.

  Here’s the video ( Warning if you are epiliptic, this video may give you an epiliptic seizure. )

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GA3a15xF0c&NR=1

  The trippy part start at the 2:00 min mark.

• Jules
  March 30th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

  That was a pointless and cruel thing to do. I hope that eventually they will pay for what they did.

• Steohawk
  March 30th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

  I can’t imagine why somebody would want to hurt an innocent person for kicks. That’s sick.

• XuYu
  March 30th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

  I had the exact same reaction to 2 Girls 1 Cup.

• Mizzle
  March 30th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

  In what way was this forum “hacked”? Sounds like the work of an inconsiderate ass, not a hacker.

• Steve
  March 30th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

  The latest gossip floating around on Digg is that this was done by the Church of Scientology in the name of Anonymous to attempt to muddy their name or something to that effect. I’m not saying that’s the case, or that it’s even credible, but that’s the word that’s bouncing around in the intertubes.

• Sean McKenna
  March 30th, 2008 at 11:03 pm

  Whoever the scumbag is that did this needs a few years in a state prison to think about his decision to pull such a “prank”.

  There’s no excuse for any sort of unprovoked assault and this is can be considered nothing else.

• Andrew32
  March 30th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

  that’s pretty f***ed up.

  ’nuff said.

• Terry Austin
  March 30th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

  What kind of dumbass admin sets up a forum to allow uploading images. They should be grateful it wasn’t goatse or tubgirl pictures.

• ak
  March 31st, 2008 at 4:50 am

  Just when you thought script kiddies couldn’t be more stupid…

• Lasse
  March 31st, 2008 at 4:55 am

  Legally, that would be assault?

• poor hackers
  March 31st, 2008 at 5:36 am

  wtf, this came from wired? I suppose using “hackers” is a flashier term than “some really mean internet people.” Shame on wired.

• SarahW
  March 31st, 2008 at 10:01 am

  I think Wired called them out as “griefers”, vs. hackers.

  The loose organization and deliberate coordination of attack is what gets them elevated from individual jerkiness.

• Justin
  March 31st, 2008 at 10:52 am

  You know it’s probably a bunch of kids or 20 somethings who spend all there time in front of the computer instead of making real friends. I see it all the time and it’s really sad how cruel they are because they know the internet is anonymous.

  The only way to stop it is if you expose the people who did this and publicly humiliate them.

  It is for this reason that I wish the internet wasn’t so good at hiding your identity because people need to know their actions will have consequences like in the real world. (I know its a double edged sword here especially for people living in countries like China and Iran)

• Tom
  March 31st, 2008 at 1:39 pm

  I go to one of the sites mentioned (7chan) and I can tell you that they (probably) didn’t do it. People who call for raids of any sort are universally derided (perpetrators are dubbed “raidfags”) and often banned. Most raids originate from 420chan or 711chan, and they normally target camwhores, racist radio commentators, and call in TV shows (mainly internet based ones).

  More than likely, this is a black bag job by Co$.

• Church of bob
  March 31st, 2008 at 4:00 pm

  That would violate the Church of Scientology’s beliefs. The real memebers want to practice the beliefs in peace and try to make the world a better place. As do most religious people. Don’t let sensationalized news pieces shape your opinion of a religion.

  Hating Scientology is the new “anti-semitic” religious prejudice trend; all the cool kids are doing it. Scientologists don’t do half the evil stuff people believe and quit giving them that much credit. The so called weird beliefs are from fables, story that are written to explain/teach morals. Have you read the material in the context its present in? If taken out of context communion is about drink blood for immortality. Trolls love setting them up and how they play the idiot public to believe scary “alt religion” did these bad things.

  Secondly, Its a lowly troll not a hacker. Copy Pasta scripting doesn’t equal a “hacker”.

  Maybe somebody can explain this to me, Anonymous is mad at CO$ for wanting their material off line. People rally around to take down the wiki and other pages under non-nobility and delete wars. Successfully removing the information and details about the beliefs. Which CO$’s own practices couldn’t get removed. Then they attack and overload the CO$’s hosting servers causing them to crash. So Anon and CO$ seem to be working for the same goal. Keeping Scientology off-line and accessible only at their churches. What if Anonymous is really Ron Hubbard?

• Cindy
  March 31st, 2008 at 4:44 pm

  I wonder if someone could file a lawsuit against them…

• Louise
  March 31st, 2008 at 6:14 pm

  Trace their ISP. ID the user. Arrest them for assault.

  Knowing the way legislation has been written this decade, they can probably be arrested as terrorists.

• oezicomix
  March 31st, 2008 at 6:32 pm

  snowcrash… getting closer.

• bernard
  March 31st, 2008 at 7:09 pm

  This isn’t an isolated event - it isn’t the first time the hooligans at 7chan /b/ instigated an attack on epilepsy forums. They do it periodically. I issued a press release ( http://www.pr.com/press-release/60959 ) after they attacked CWE ( http://www.coping-with-epilepsy.com/ ) last November.

  Oh, and Tom, I have saved copies of the threads on 7chan /b/ from when the raids were being instigated.

• Thomas
  April 1st, 2008 at 1:44 am

  1) that sucks. it takes a certain kind of asshole to do something like that
  2) Any proof that the Co$ is behind this, or is Anonymous a proper noun these days
  3) Co$ isn’t hated because of their beliefs, they’re hated because they attempt to stifle free speech by intimidation and lawsuits. They require money to advance in the church, and they hold tax-exempt status while organizing their members to sway certain local elections. However, I hear that when you reach OT6 you learn telepathy, so there’s that.

• JamesM
  April 1st, 2008 at 2:42 am

  It doesn’t take a hacker to inlink an img src tag into a forum.

  Someone was being a douchebag. Calling this a hacker attempt serves nothing but to distort the story and make it more inflammatory.

  Oh no. I signed up for a forum and posted on it. I guess that makes me a hacker.

  PS: I have epilepsy, but thankfully not one of those 5% who are photosensitive. I don’t excuse what these people did on a forum KNOWING the consequences of their actions, and in fact, they should be severely punished… but calling it “hacking a forum” when it’s really just signing up and typing img src=”http://someurl.here/and.image.gif” in a post is akin to calling it grand theft when you use a penny out of the penny jar for spare change at your local 7-11.

• LisaL
  April 1st, 2008 at 2:47 am

  Wow, that’s pretty freaking sick. Do they not realize that that could possibly KILL someone? I hope whoever did that gets caught.. that is just absolutely sick and disgusting.

• Thetan for life " F" the engrams
  April 1st, 2008 at 12:24 pm

  Co$ hasn’t done anything that the christians haven’t done first about suing to force their views. Oh my god, someone is trying to bring their religion in politics because they don’t want the other religion to shape things. Same prejudice crap since the beginning of government.

  Besides don’t hate the religion/believers because of a few church uppers. Church elders pretty mush suck everywhere. A lot of believers try to be decent human beings by bettering themselves and others. The OT levels are like sunday school leader, assistant pastor, pastor, preacher, bishop and so forth. It takes time/studying and materials/cost to reach the positions. Do you find fault with seminary schools? Any issue with churches and colleges charging money for classes on theology and/or how to be a priest? Mock away because they use a different name/term/definition/job title.

  Co$ doesn’t have the resources to give out “Dianetics” to every person who walks through their door for free. If you know a member or have real interest they’ll most likely loan you the materials. Why would they give away and incur the expense just so people can’t get the materials to mock them? When did trolling a church become a badge of anarchy?
  How many churches can you walk into and get a bible, Torah and/or the Koran for free at? Double standard. Ever hear of Freezone? the Co$ material is out that at no cost if you really want it.

  I’m still wondering if the co$ was behind all the wiki’s getting deleted as a great Operation “insert cool wicked nickname”. The wikipedias explained their material better than they did. Ether they got what they wanted or played the lesser life forms to do their dirty work. Fighting them would be better targeted as “Operation Copypasta”.

• su.wei
  April 2nd, 2008 at 11:38 pm

  that is horrible! people anger me so much sometimes

• Andri
  April 7th, 2008 at 10:35 am

  If you go on encyclopedia dramatica (chan&anon hangout) and search for ‘epilepsy’ you instantly get your screen full of blinking images.

  Discusting behavior.

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