How Fucked Up is This

Hacker Tries To Set Off Epileptic Seizures In Web Users

Thursday May 8, 2008

CityNews.ca Staff

If you're a computer owner, you know the harm that hackers can do. They can break through a firewall and steal sensitive data, turn your PC into a spam zombie, causing it to send out millions of unwanted letters, or they can try to deliberately infect your machine with a virus.

But up until now, they've never done anything quite as terrible as this.

Some unknown online intruders recently hacked into the website run by the Epilepsy Foundation, a group that gives out information about the medical condition. Epileptics can experience seizures brought on by a number of factors, including bright, rapidly flashing lights, busy pictures, video games and even cartoons.

So in a mean spirited and potentially dangerous act, someone gained control of the site and posted hundreds of photos of rapidly flashing images, along with links to areas where similar slideshows would be repeated.(read more)

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