Website of Murdoch’s Sun Hacked

[cory777]

Source: New York Magazine

In a grisly prank, someone has hacked the website for Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper and replaced the lead story with one about Murdoch himself being found dead. The website thesun.co.uk redirects users immediately to new-times.co.uk/sun/, which hosts a story titled "Media moguls body discovered."



Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/07/website_of_murdochs_sun_hacked.html

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[JuniperLea]

1. That is cold...

And wrong.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. But I could not write this as a novel and sell it

[asjr]

5. I bet you could! Remember, Don Coreleone

dropped dead in his garden of tomatoes!

[fujiyama]

11. It's soooo wrong

but it's soooo right ;)

I can't say I'll be feeling bad for Murdoch and his minions...

[JuniperLea]

20. I feel bad...

For whomever thinks this kind of trick is funny. It's wrong no matter who does it.

[JAnthony]

26. Some people need to realize that what happens on the internet is not

real life, but only electrons.

. Shutting down a newspaper with 200+ employees is real and horrible. Bribing Scotland yard and denying knowing about it is real and horrible.

Faking a headline on a website is not!

Get some perspective

[BNJMN]

16. Poor Rupert.

[JuniperLea]

19. Nonsense...

Poor whomever thought that issuing a death statement was funny. I don't care who the pretend victim is, it's wrong. It's wrong when the right does stupid shit like this and it's wrong when the left does it... or when anyone a-political does it... whenever ANYONE does that morbid evil crap, it's wrong.

Just because you are clearly not above it, it doesn't make it right.

[BNJMN]

23. Sanctimony...

...it's the scourge of the innertubes.

Also, not every single thing the Republicans do is wrong.
That seems like a weak argument against something.

"Whaddaya, one of those one pantleg at a time Republicans?"

I happen to agree with the death penalty (is that a banable offense here? Guess I'll find out shortly)
and think ol' Ruppie, while not deserving the death penalty, is certainly not above a humorous jab in that direction.

Humorous death notices for real assholes is funny.
Humorous death notices for mere political opponents is messed up.

That's where I stand at least.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Redirects to a 403 'forbidden' page on 'new-times.co.uk' for me

Fail all around, then.

[dipsydoodle]

10. That may be because it can't redirect

from the Sun's site because that site is still down according tv news @ 12.30am our time.

[Grrrfun]

4. turnabout

is fair play as they say...

couldn't have happened to a bigger worm.

[aquart]

6. Mogul's

Are there no decent editors among hackers?

[trud]

7. yes, where is the apostrophe? n/t

[hyphenate]

9. Only those over the age of 50

and even then, they're as scarce as hen's teeth.

[hyphenate]

8. It takes one to know one!

Murdoch put himself into this mess, and I sincerely wish him whatever he deserves. I just wish we could bring down Roger Ailes at the same time.

[fantomas]

12. Lulzsec needs more respect for the grandaddy of hackers

Murdoch was hacking when these kids were still on AOL dialup.

[harvey007]

13. LulzSec Defaces Murdoch Paper With Mogul’s Fake Death Notice

Source: Wired News



They’re back. The hacker gang LulzSec, after declaring retirement last month, cracked the Rupert Murdoch–owned New Times on Monday and used it to host a fake news story declaring that the embattled media mogul had been found dead at his home.

Read more: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/07/murdoch/

[OnyxCollie]

14. Murdoch should commit seppuku.

It would totally ruin LulzSec's hacking.

That's how you get 'em, Rupert!

[BNJMN]

17. Murdoch should be beaten to death with a bag of penises.

Sorry if that offends anyone but it's true.
I feel absolutely ZERO pity for this scummy rich maggot.
He has many people's blood on his hands and is one
of the most evil people in power today.

[sakabatou]

15. Ouch

[BNJMN]

18. Meh. Web sites defaced. In the annals of crime, how's that stack up against hacking thousands of

phones, bribing cops, and blackmailing politicians?

[JuniperLea]

21. Multiple wrongs doesn't make this right...

I find it truly frightening and disgusting that anyone would try to justify this.

[BNJMN]

22. Fighting fire with fire.

Plus, I don't see it as all that wrong.
It's really no big deal.
Especially compared to the RL blood ol' Rupert has on his hands.

[marasinghe]

24. i'll save my sympathy for murdoch's victims, over his long career -

of riding roughshod over folks & destroying whatever got in the way of his egotistical self-aggrandizement.

i find it truly amazing, that a kids' prank which did zero physical damage to the so-called victim, would be so hyperbolically labeled as: "truly frightening".

[BNJMN]

25. Couldn't have said it better myself. n/t