Hacker Attack Causes Epileptic Fits in Epilepsy Forum
 

...and you thought clicking the wrong thread in GFY was bad...

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RyAnne Fultz, 33, says she suffered her worst epileptic attack in a year after she clicked on the wrong post at a forum run by the nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation.

Anonymous "hackers" caused epileptic fits in users of an epilepsy forum. In this attack, possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm on the victims, the unknown attackers created hundreds forum entries with flashing pictures.

A 33-year-old woman who suffers from epilepsy clicked on a forum post which caused her screen to be filled with a rapidly flashing pattern in different colors. She locked up and could not move until turned away by her 11 year old son.

Wired.com reports that evidence suggests the attack was the work of members of Anonymous, an informal collective best known for their recent DDOS attacks on the Church of Scientology.


Source: wired.com

thats fucked up and funny at the same time

What's funny is them trying to pin this on Anon another Ebaums war :1orglaugh

Survival of the fittest.

YEAP... even on the web.........

i dont know whether 2 laugh or feel bad

I think it is possible... you know i have seen some program that reads your mind. The program will reveal what you think of, yeah that is sick but its true I tried the software and its fucking crazy.

:Oh crap

i wanto to try it first before i believe fuzzylogic :):):)

That was fucking mean.

I'm having a hard time believing this one.

not cool at all

That is just down right cold

It's been posted a few times before...

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/play/764/#

:thumbsup

agree, lol, what a mind to add flashing images in an epileptic forum haha, made me remember when lot of toddlers in Japan had convulsions while watching a Pokemon chapter with flashing images.

Nothing would shock me. I once went to a week long gun and hunting camp (when I was 8) and it turned out to be epileptic week. That was a long 7 days for me and my friends. Dead truth.

lol, that's pretty epileptic :1orglaugh

r u serious????

It must be just a trick or a more or less complex math calculation.

I had seen both, a .pps that asked u to choose a card and then pretending to predict what card you elected by showing again all the cards without this one, and it was a trick, they were all different cards, just as they were french cards some letter alterations as they only used J Q K's.

Math calculations, are many programs, like the one that predict a symbol, it just works with multiple of 9.

not sure why anybody thinks it funny other than perhaps they have never seen somebody have an attack

wow, if you gave me 20 years and 10 million guesses about things that might happen in the future, this wouldn't even be on the radar, lol.

Sounds like they are blaming anonymous since anonymous is such a threat to scientology, which is protected by the government.

Fantastic.