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Recently, a herd of rowdy Facebook trolls had an answer to a bigoted right-wing Facebook pages bigoted depiction of President Obama being lynched. That answer? Goats! Lots and lots of goats!
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While many have reported on the goating, some agencies have gotten the story completely wrong. Addicting Info, for example, in a piece written by Stephen D. Foster Jr, falsely pushes the claim that the page was hacked. Even the most loose definition of hack would be to gain access to something without authorization by way of a computer. Since there was no unauthorized access, no crime committed, or even a single broken Facebook policyAddicting Infos insistence that the page was hacked seems more than slightly unreasonable. Despite a number of people correcting their decision to falsely accuse multiple goaters of a felony, the story has still not been corrected as of the time of writing.
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jmowreader
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Hassin Bin Sober
(26,328 posts)(which what I think it refers to. just my wild guess)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goatse.cx
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Looks like they ran and hid under a rock. I wonder what vileness will vomit forth from that rock?
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)they made a "2" which is now gone. There are also a couple spin-offs with the obligatory goatz theme
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)that is a spin off. the original, which I have book marked had no hyphens. Even the people involved have said this. I know I am being adamant about it, but the people behind this have also been adamant about getting the truth out.
https://www.facebook.com/Americathenextgenerations
https://www.facebook.com/AmericaTheNextGeneration2 are the originals.
the first was taken over the second has been deleted
Gore1FL
(21,132 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)"Social engineering" is actually a misuse of the term but hackers (white hat and black hat both) apply the term when they mean gaining access by using people's foibles and predilections. The goat army gained access by tricking the page's admin into sharing the password.
It was an access that the page's admin never intended. The admin never intended to have the page commandeered in such a way and to get locked out himself. That makes it some kind of a hack (in the black hat sense even though from our point of view the goats are wearing white hats).
Note about vocabulary: the word "hack" itself has become clouded because originally it got its roots from "hack newspaper reporters" who would just quickly pound out an article without much regard to the facts. From there it went to programming where coders would hammer out software quickly without much regard to the fundamentals of computer science or engineering principles. That was the fore-runner of "agile programming", but the same "quick-and-dirty" attitude became applied to cracking into computer security. For a long time "hacking" was good (produced working code) and "cracking" was bad (taking over computer systems illegally). Now it is all blurred somewhat.
Cha
(297,240 posts)I still don't understand how or the Admin of the page handed the keys over, though?
thanks for this goodboy.. that was delicious! AATTP is one of my FB Likes.
Leith
(7,809 posts)Let's never forget: according to the reichwing, they are perfectly privileged to put up pics of the president being lynched but people like us are evil for removing them - or even objecting. They have free speech rights, don'tcha know?
I hope that the Secret Service pays them a visit and they all have a productive interview.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)very grateful to them
53tammy
(93 posts)But if I was I would follow, https://www.facebook.com/pages/Busta-Troll/578934862150321
The read on Duck Dynasty thing is good.
Busta Troll