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LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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Post by anigbrowl »

News International (NWSA) lost about 5% of its stock value today, and with a special session of the UK Parliament on Wednesday all bets are off - if Cameron is badly damaged enough, the Lib Dems could pull out of the government on principle leading to a snap election, although I would give that only a 20% chance of happening.

Murdoch is probably doomed; unless he pulls a rabbit out of a hat at the Parliamentary committee meeting tomorrow morning, his stockholders seem almost certain to revolt. I'm kind of surprised that his board hasn't cut him loose yet. This Lulzsec joke is in poor taste, but right on the money as a piece of satire. Curiously reminiscent of a 19th century Thomas Nast cartoon jesting about the funeral of NY Tribune publisher (and neckbeard extraordinaire) Horace Greeley.

EDIT: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-18/news-corp-said-to-c... suggests NWSA is indeed planning to give Murdoch the boot. Oh, how the mighty are fallen.

EDIT II: A more illuminating story from the trades http://www.adweek.com/news/television/if-rupert-goes-chase-c...

Edit III: I can't help noticing that Mr Carey looks an awful lot like the Lulzsec mascot with those curly mustachios. Coincidence? I think not!

I'll show myself out

Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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Post by panacea »

jbooth wrote: post #28
panacea wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We should... they are sufficiently compensated for their position as an international news organisation, that they should operate at a higher standard. But the internet has leveled the playing field. We should hold ourselves to a similar standard. Rather than lulzing as it burns. We should step up.

That's sort of like telling insurgents that they should engage in an infantry battle instead of roadside bombs. You can disagree with the cause but it's pretty obvious, given their capabilities, that they have to play by different rules. Lulzsec don't have a half dozen global media organizations to push their point of view -- they have funny website redirects and email dumps. So that's what they're doing. EDIT: Hey d…

If we're torturing analogies, that's like a child saying "but he started it!"

There seems to be a momentum developing based on adults who have been maintaining pressure on this story through legal investigative journalism... setting fire to a paper bag filled with shit on their doorstep and ringing the bell doesn't help.

(edit: didn't downvote you btw... that's for the drive-by kids)

Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

#33

Post by teyc »

anigbrowl wrote: post #31

News International (NWSA) lost about 5% of its stock value today, and with a special session of the UK Parliament on Wednesday all bets are off - if Cameron is badly damaged enough, the Lib Dems could pull out of the government on principle leading to a snap election, although I would give that only a 20% chance of happening. Murdoch is probably doomed; unless he pulls a rabbit out of a hat at the Parliamentary commi…

Murdoch would have done better if he continued to make up news instead of trying to hack phones and report the truth.

Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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Post by felipemnoa »

hendzen wrote: post #8

From the fake article: One detective elaborates. "Officers on the scene report a broken glass, a box of vintage wine, and what seems to be a family album strewn across the floor, containing images from days gone by; some containing handpainted portraits of Murdoch in his early days, donning a top hat and monocle." I've got to give it to them, that's hilarious.

You could almost write a whole novel out of it.

Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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Post by albertsun »

funthree wrote: post #6

view-source: http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html edit: here's the right pastebin http://pastebin.com/ksu585vM

That looks like it's an iframe that normally has no content but which can be updated by commenting in the sample bits to put a breaking news headline onto the homepage. Because the CMSes that run newspaper websites are often terribly crufty, people resort to workarounds like this.

Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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Post by walrus »

felipemnoa wrote: post #36
MatthewB wrote: post #4

I thought lulzsec said they were done after their 50 day mission? Guess they had to come back for this.

Anybody can claim they are from lulzec.

False. Only those involved in LulzSec can post to the Twitter page.

Edit: Though, looking at the screenshots of the tweets on the TechCrunch page, they don't actually explicitly say it was them.

Edit 2: They did claim responsibility for it (just not in the tweets TechCrunch took a screenshot of).

Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

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Post by GrangalanJr »

felipemnoa wrote: post #36
MatthewB wrote: post #4

I thought lulzsec said they were done after their 50 day mission? Guess they had to come back for this.

Anybody can claim they are from lulzec.

Sure, but can anybody post from Lulzsec's Twitter account?

Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story

#40

Post by sambeau »

felipemnoa wrote: post #36
MatthewB wrote: post #4

I thought lulzsec said they were done after their 50 day mission? Guess they had to come back for this.

Anybody can claim they are from lulzec.

"Thank you for the love tonight. I know we quit, but we couldn't sit by with our wine watching this walnut-faced Murdoch clowning around."

https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec/status/93103067662258176

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