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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 xiaoqmasff »

anigbrowl wrote: post #31

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

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Post by anigbrowl »

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…

By the way here is the cartoon I mentioned above. I mis-remembered; it wasn't Greeley's funeral exactly, but suggesting he was near death. Greeley had run as a quixotic Democratic candidate in the 1872 election against President Ulysses S. Grant and his continued occupation of the South during the reconstruction period following the civil war. Greeley did poorly in the election, and this cartoon in Harper's Weekly, a strongly Republican magazine at that time, mocked his crusading style and suggested his campaign had no life left in it.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_OQAiMcEXtec/Re4nyF-d-bI/AAAAAAAAAA...

This is considered an especially cruel editorial cartoon, because Greeley's wife died immediately after the election; Greeley then went mad, and died a few weeks later at the end of November. He had suffered terrible financial losses by being caught in an investment scam earlier that year, and had lost control of his newspaper to another New York publisher, Whitelaw Reid, who fired him. I happened to be reading about these events just before the News International scandal blew up. Technology has changed a lot, human nature not so much.

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

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Post by thematt »

teyc wrote: post #33
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.

To be sure, he is ultimately responsible, but I highly doubt he himself sanctioned or approved of those actions.

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

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Post by _delirium »

ntownsend wrote: post #38
mike-cardwell wrote: post #3

The LulzSec twitter feed is pretty active right now: https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec

The LulzSec twitter feed now appears to be empty.

All twitter.com pages come up empty for me for the past 30-40 minutes.

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

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Post by klenwell »

thematt wrote: post #44
teyc wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

To be sure, he is ultimately responsible, but I highly doubt he himself sanctioned or approved of those actions.

From what I've read, in the WSJ editorial today perhaps foremost, he sanctions those activities implicitly if not explicitly. Don't forget in the midst of all this the NY Post front page story alleging DSK accuser not only of being hooker but pimped by her union! If it is the end of Murdoch, good riddance.

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

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Post by sliverstorm »

GrangalanJr wrote: post #39
felipemnoa wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anybody can claim they are from lulzec.

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

Are you suggesting that Twitter is immune to hackers? Which, you know, these people obviously are?

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Post by AndyJPartridge »

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.

Agreed.

An image Lulzsec use as their identity linked below, for those that don't get the joke they made:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Lulz_Sec...

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

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Post by teyc »

thematt wrote: post #44
teyc wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

To be sure, he is ultimately responsible, but I highly doubt he himself sanctioned or approved of those actions.

According to the whistleblower, the problem is endemic to the entire industry.

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

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Post by parfe »

walrus wrote: post #37
felipemnoa wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

You're making the mistake of thinking the twitter account is somehow "official." It is, again, just an "anybody" claiming to be in LulzSec
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