WHAT HEELS!: Hackers Trigger Seizures In Patients Visiting Epilepsy Forum
Hackers infiltrated a message board run by the Epilepsy Foundation and seeded the patient support forum with a flashing animation meant to trigger seizures in those who viewed it, reports Wired.com:
The incident, possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims, began Saturday, March 22, when attackers used a script to post hundreds of messages embedded with flashing animated gifs.
The attackers turned to a more effective tactic on Sunday, injecting JavaScript into some posts that redirected users' browsers to a page with a more complex image designed to trigger seizures in both photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics. …
Epilepsy affects an estimated 50 million people worldwide, about 3 percent of whom are photosensitive, meaning flashing lights and colors can trigger seizures.
BTW, research suggests that sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP) can occur in up to 17 percent of epileptic patients, so these hackers could have killed someone.
The Epilepsy Foundation says only a few users were adversely affected in the Easter weekend hack attack. The malicious messages were purged from the site, and security has been beefed up in an effort to prevent repeat or copycat incidents.
According to Wired.com, “Circumstantial evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective of griefers best known for their recent war on the
The understand what is going on, you need to read this:
- Anonymous hackers was blamed for the attack, but...
- The Anonymous has previously attacked *Scientology* by using internet guerilla tactics. The Anonymous seems to be leaderless entity, which no real members nor leaders. It is more like a culture. so Scientology cannot attack individual critics.
- The cult of Scientology does not believe that Epilepsy exists. This is what they think of medicine in general: "psychiatry was responsible for World War I,[205] the rise of Hitler and Stalin".
- Scientology is infamous for their Fair Game tactics, which they decide to apply again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology )
So, some "unknown people" (scientologists?) urged 13 year old script kiddies to attack on Epilepsy forums. That obiously worked. Both got the sick laugh out of it. Then some "unknown people" posted that is was anonymous that did it.
What is the logic of this? Well, you know what is the logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_the_Internet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)
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Oh man. I'm one of the protesters against the Church of Scientology, and I really don't understand how people could be blaming us for this thing. Anyone can be anonymous on-line, people need to take a look at the websites these griefers operate on. The people who run sites like 7chan are against our protests. Scientology is against its members taking medication to stop them from getting seizures, for example, Tory "Magoo" Christman - http://www.entheta.net/archive/personal_story/tory/affidavit.html
Jocelyn Dorfmann died from an epileptic seizure in Scientology care in France - http://www.whyaretheydead.net/others/Jocelyne_Dorfmann_34.html
Heribert Pfaff died from an epileptic seizure in a Scientology hotel in Clearwater - http://www.whyaretheydead.net/room758.html
James Stewart committed suicide after CoS put in him in a Condition of Doubt for having epileptic seizures in public - http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/kult-epelep.htm
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