The daily rant
posted in Computers, News, Pop Culture |(No, not about taxes!)
Most of the time, I go through life thinking most people are pretty nice, that everyone (generally) just wants to get along, that the folks who get a kick out of hurting other people are few and far between. That hackers are only interested in scoring, via macho skillz, or making money by scamming or thievery, but not interested in hurting other people.
Then I read something like this.
Hackers and spammers and what-not are branching out, it seems. Not content with stealing people’s credit card numbers or identification, or posting 279 spam comments on an obscure blog per day for a week, they’ve now decided to target epilepsy patients, with something that hurts them.
An epilepsy support board was hacked by folks who put javascript in place to either display a seizure-inducing picture or redirect the post-reader to another website entirely that displayed a full-screen video of seizure-inducing patterns.
What kind of sick fucks would do something like that?!
I mean, really. I can get "revenge". I can get "personal animosity" aimed at one person. I can get graffiti. I can get theft. But I can’t get the kind of personality that impersonally poisons an online medical support group with something that can actually physically incapacitate or hurt someone. My considered opinion: These are scum-sucking slimeball pigs with the morals of a hyena, like roaches of the internet, who should be squashed like the bugs they are.
Bastards.
