It would have been a little more convincing if they'd bothered to use an apostrophe: Media Mogul's Body Discovered. Not to nitpick, but you want a media prank to work, you need to think like media people. They wouldn't forget punctuation.
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
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Does it matter really? For all we know different people could have been posting stuff during the 50 days all under the same banner.
Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
"Anybody" who has the password to the Lulzsec Twitter account. Or who, very unlikely, hacked Twitter.
Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
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#65I 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.
Sabu was the leader/only person worth a damn of the bunch. The other kids he "teamed-up" with to make LulzSec have long since fled the group, but Sabu remains.
Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're acting like this has anything to do with the News of the World allegations, other than the fact that it is what gave them the idea. It's mostly about them entertaining themselves. Lulzsec/antisec does have a message (essentially that the security industry is exploitative) but when they act under Lulzsec it really is just for the lulz.
It's mostly about attention seeking.
Same thing
Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
It's official in the sense that lulzsecurity.com endorses it (and @LulzSec endorses lulzsecurty.com), so either both @LulzSec and lulzsecurity.com are 'fake' or they're both actually controlled by LulzSec.
I think it's pretty safe to say that they're both controlled by LulzSec.
Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
#68News 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…
> 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.
I'd say the chances of that are more like 0.2%. Most of the crap that went on was under Blair and Brown.
Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
#69It would have been a little more convincing if they'd bothered to use an apostrophe: Media Mogul's Body Discovered. Not to nitpick, but you want a media prank to work, you need to think like media people. They wouldn't forget punctuation.
The grauniad would.
From wikipedia:
"The nickname The Grauniad for the paper originated with the satirical magazine Private Eye.[109] This anagram played on The Guardian's reputation for frequent typographical errors, such as misspelling its own name as The Gaurdian."
Re: LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
#70From 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.
A box of vintage wine?
I thought these were boxes of wine: http://www.instructables.com/image/FO6BCL6F8DOSUHR/FINISH-OF...
