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goodboy

(8,967 posts)
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 03:26 PM Jan 2014

AATTP EXCLUSIVE: Ringleader of Trolls Who ‘Goated’ Obama Lynching Facebook Speaks Out! - See more at

Recently, a herd of rowdy Facebook trolls had an answer to a bigoted right-wing Facebook page’s 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 policy–Addicting Info’s 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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AATTP EXCLUSIVE: Ringleader of Trolls Who ‘Goated’ Obama Lynching Facebook Speaks Out! - See more at (Original Post) goodboy Jan 2014 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Jan 2014 #1
How better to get their goat? jmowreader Jan 2014 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Jan 2014 #3
Better than a Goatse: Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2014 #4
America the next generation 2 is now deleted MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #5
Not deleted. It's just hard to see because of all the Goats! n/t Gore1FL Jan 2014 #9
That's the original MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #10
2 has goats, too. Here is the link: Gore1FL Jan 2014 #11
Ok I will clarify MyNameGoesHere Jan 2014 #12
It's cool. I get it. Thanks for the clarification. n/t Gore1FL Jan 2014 #13
Technically, it was a "social engineering hack". Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2014 #6
Brawawawaaaa I loves me some liberal trolls! Cha Jan 2014 #7
A Man's Goata Do What a Man's Goata Do Leith Jan 2014 #8
thanking bustatroll and co. Skittles Jan 2014 #14
not on facebook 53tammy Jan 2014 #15

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MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
5. America the next generation 2 is now deleted
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 05:11 PM
Jan 2014

Looks like they ran and hid under a rock. I wonder what vileness will vomit forth from that rock?

 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
10. That's the original
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:01 PM
Jan 2014

they made a "2" which is now gone. There are also a couple spin-offs with the obligatory goatz theme

 

MyNameGoesHere

(7,638 posts)
12. Ok I will clarify
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 07:08 PM
Jan 2014

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

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,002 posts)
6. Technically, it was a "social engineering hack".
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 05:52 PM
Jan 2014

"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)
7. Brawawawaaaa I loves me some liberal trolls!
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 06:10 PM
Jan 2014


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)
8. A Man's Goata Do What a Man's Goata Do
Sun Jan 5, 2014, 06:13 PM
Jan 2014

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.

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