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    AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds

    Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama
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    Image of limber limber
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    I tried to explain 4chan to my boss one day -- he shrugged and tried to brush the whole idea off as "just a bunch of kids", so I went and got some of the tech team to back me up.

    Once he had ten people in his office all telling him in deadly serious tones that 4chan was not a thing to mess with, he finally got the point.

    I can just imagine that any and all nerds in the AT&T offices had the same conversation, but were overruled. I'm sorry that their lives are now going to suck.
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    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    LOL 4chan has a couple of distinct groups that are into this sort of thing. There are a few talented haxorz (maybe 100? they don't really like questionnaires) and then thousands of me-too teenage/college bandwagoneers.

    Basically the talented peeps have to orchestrate a plan and then herd the me-toos to achieve specific goals.

    It's much more difficult than outsiders make it sound. Go teach high school or a 100 level class for more info. Fortunately AT&T made it easy for them by inviting collective hate but if the me-toos get too terroristy the feds might kill the fun.

    Yeah, this will be interesting to watch.
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    Cynical Media Bitch promoted this comment Edited by nathanst at 07/27/09 10:53 AM nathanst was starred nathanst was unstarred
    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    I have never, in my life heard of a more proper description for 4chan than "asshole of the internet."

    I'm sure those guys not only agree, but wear that description like a badge of honor from my dealings with them at Otakon.
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    07/27/09

    @Jim Topoleski: Otakon is the asshole of real life, where internet people are just the dingleberries.

    It isn't nice for pots to be calling kettles black, man.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    07/27/09

    @▄█▀ █▬█ █ ▀█▀: ahhh I rest my case on them.
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    Image of skt.smth skt.smth
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    This should be interesting to see. AT&T is and has been, after all, the classic real-world antagonist of hackers for about as long as computer-to-computer communications has existed. If things go right, Bruce Sterling may be able to tack another chapter onto his brilliant non-fiction book, "The Hacker Crackdown."
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    Image of Xylo Xylo
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    They (and others) were also the originators of the Anonymous campaign against Scientology, which started off as 4chan being pissed that $cientology was trying to censor the Tom-Cruise=crazy video.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    07/27/09

    @Xylo: That was terrifying and awesome at once.
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    Image of Must B. Nice Must B. Nice
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    4chan isn't really an elite group of uber-hackers. It's just a really large group of people, a good percentage of whom Know What They're Doing when it comes to computers. And they're fanatical.

    To make a boxing analogy, this isn't like picking a fight with the professional champions of each weight class.

    This is like picking a fight with every amateur boxing club in America, all their instructors, members, and sympathizers, at once.

    Good luck with that.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    I fear AT&T is going to go the way of Jukt Micronics.
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    07/27/09

    @The Real JR: Methinks you're the Proxima Centauri of Gawker stars.. I'm readjusting my orbit to keep up with you.

    PS: This reminds me--what kind of sane editor/reader could ever buy that "Jukt Micronics" is the actual name of an actual company?
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    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    To give you an idea of how awesomely powerful this segment of the hacker community is, in 2005 they stole the password to Dick Cheney’s Club Penguin account and started making indecent comments about Rock Hopper under Cheney’s profile Dark Penguin. Disney and the Secret Service tried in vain for six months to stop them but failed. Finally the gov. used CIA funds to pay these hackers off and to close down the account. .
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    The Cajun Boy promoted this comment Edited by Nesbiteme at 07/27/09 7:38 AM Nesbiteme was starred Nesbiteme was unstarred
    Image of Albert Samuel Albert Samuel
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    Yeah... If these guy's are timing up to fuck up AT&T, I'm really sure you guys should not be calling them "A Bunch of Web-Nerds" since they'll track you down and lend you the web version on a sodomy and you'll end up in hiding and having to change all of the shit information, including phone numbers, ISP's(Irony) and maybe even credit cards. So I suggest you don't mess with the smart bunch of advanced hackers seeing as they can really f*ck up people's lives
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    07/27/09

    @Albert Samuel: I don't really think the 4chaners give a fuck about being called web-nerds. They have much bigger fish to fry. Besides, I'm pulling for them to do something especially dastardly in this case.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    Wow. So by tomorrow if you use AT&T for phone or Internet or anything you are fucked because AT&T will not be able to do anything.

    I hope they do that Office Space thing where they empty their bank accounts.
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    07/27/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: only if they have a slow mo scene of them destroying a stupid ass 2wire modem.
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    Image of MoeGolden MoeGolden
    07/27/09

    In reply to AT&T Has Managed To Piss Off the Wrong Bunch of Web-Nerds
    I'm 32 and what is this?
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    Image of The Cajun Boy The Cajun Boy
    07/27/09

    @MoeGolden: I know how you feel.
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    07/27/09

    @MoeGolden: It's sort of like a vulgar fax machine.
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    Image of drunkexpatwriter drunkexpatwriter
    07/27/09

    @MoeGolden: 4Chan is a site where the most dedicated, evil and merciless hackers hang out.

    AT&T trying to take them on is up there with a small town local sheriff trying to take down all of the Colombian drug lords at once.

    These people have nothing but time on their hands and are fairly well organized.
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    Image of Martyn Jackson Martyn Jackson
    07/27/09

    @MoeGolden: That is a forced meme.
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    07/27/09

    @drunkexpatwriter: They don't forgive, they don't forget, they are legion. This could get interesting.
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    07/27/09

    @Martyn Jackson: Well, it is Monday.
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    07/27/09

    @ampersandparade: Ha! Promoted because I remember faxes. How old am I?
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    01/05/09

    In reply to Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama
    "Is no one safe from this epidemic?" In other words: Why do people Twitter again??
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    01/05/09

    In reply to Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    01/05/09

    In reply to Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama
    Actually that Rick Sanchez thing is actually from Rick Sanchez.
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    Image of Kid Twist Kid Twist
    01/05/09

    In reply to Twitter Hacking Epidemic Claims Britney Spears, Barack Obama
    This is Kurt Andersen's handiwork.
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