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LulzSec Redirects ‘The Sun’ Homepage To Fake Murdoch Death Story
- mike-cardwell 15y agoFirefox + RequestPolicy users are unaffected, thanks to RequestPolicy's defences against cross origin requests and redirects.
- mike-cardwell 15y agoThe LulzSec twitter feed is pretty active right now: https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec https://twitter.com/#!/LulzSec
- ntownsend 15y agoThe LulzSec twitter feed now appears to be empty.
- MatthewB 15y agoI thought lulzsec said they were done after their 50 day mission? Guess they had to come back for this.
- felipemnoa 15y agoAnybody can claim they are from lulzec.
- walrus 15y agoFalse. 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).
- parfe 15y agoYou're making the mistake of thinking the twitter account is somehow "official." It is, again, just an "anybody" claiming to be in LulzSec
- robryan 15y agoDoes it matter really? For all we know different people could have been posting stuff during the 50 days all under the same banner.
- AndyJPartridge 15y ago"Anybody" who has the password to the Lulzsec Twitter account. Or who, very unlikely, hacked Twitter.
- walrus 15y agoIt'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.
- GrangalanJr 15y agoSure, but can anybody post from Lulzsec's Twitter account?
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- funthree 15y agoview-source:http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html edit: here's the right pastebin http://pastebin.com/ksu585vM http://pastebin.com/ksu585vM
- wesleyzhao 15y agoI read through the pastebin (the source is currently down) and I'm still not quite sure I get how Lulzsec did this. Could you (or someone) explain?
- funthree 15y agoHeh, not sure how the pastebin got mixed up but I updated the post above. It was setting parent.location.href to the twitter account.
- wesleyzhao 15y agoThanks for updating! I've opened the new pastebin but still am not sure how it all worked together with the sun website to get it to redirect.
- funthree 15y agoThat html page is normally included on the homepage as an iframe. The pastebin is entirely untelling of how it got there, but it is the source of the redirect.
- wesleyzhao 15y agoDo you happen to know how it got there? Though the pastebin does not show it.
- albertsun 15y agoThat looks like it's an iframe that normally has no content but which can be updated by commenting in the sample bits to put a breaking news headline onto the homepage. Because the CMSes that run newspaper websites are often terribly crufty, people resort to workarounds like this.
- stephenheron 15y agoA Javascript redirect has been added to http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html http://extras.thesun.co.uk/sol/breakingnewspage.html. http://pastebin.com/pWQtngDc http://pastebin.com/pWQtngDc (Line 8).
- hendzen 15y agoFrom 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.
- felipemnoa 15y agoYou could almost write a whole novel out of it.
- AndyJPartridge 15y agoAgreed. An image Lulzsec use as their identity linked below, for those that don't get the joke they made: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Lulz_Security.svg/200px-Lulz_Security.svg.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/7c/Lulz_Sec...
- fabjan 15y agoA box of vintage wine? I thought these were boxes of wine: http://www.instructables.com/image/FO6BCL6F8DOSUHR/FINISH-OFF-THE-BOX-OF-WINE.jpg http://www.instructables.com/image/FO6BCL6F8DOSUHR/FINISH-OF...
- uxp 15y agoThat's the joke.
- veb 15y agoThe Sun is now "dead". Error 324 (net::ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE): The server closed the connection without sending any data.
- veb 15y ago"Murdoch Meltdown Monday."
- estel 15y agowww. works for me, * . doesn't. *.newsinternational.co.uk has that error uniformly.
- veb 15y agoInternal Server Error - Read The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Reference #3.1fc38f18.1311029956.4e5f0fc
- JonnieCache 15y agoAccording to sabu they're going to release the sun's email dump tomorrow. http://twitter.com/#!/anonymouSabu/status/93062692327264256 http://twitter.com/#!/anonymouSabu/status/93062692327264256
- gapanalysis 15y agoSo much attention, so little value to society
- rayboyd 15y agoNewscorp or LulzSec?
- sambeau 15y agoBoth. But in that order.
- peterb 15y agoSatire is an important form of political commentary.
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- gapanalysis 15y agoIndeed. Too bad that so much useful information won't be digested b/c folks get more vicarious thrills reading about criminal acts. Too bad too that folks have to get off harming others irrespective of how they pretend to justify their actions. Yeah I know, grow some, get over it, that's life...
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- nathantross 15y agoI wonder what Murdoch's response will be.
- pyre 15y ago410 Gone?
- trotsky 15y agowe'll show those jerks that hacking people's voicemail is unacceptable... by hacking their CMS.
- delme302291 15y agoNot to excuse Lulzsec's actions, but don't you think that we should hold an international news organization to a higher standard?
- panacea 15y agoWe should... they are sufficiently compensated for their position as an international news organisation, that they should operate at a higher standard. But the internet has leveled the playing field. We should hold ourselves to a similar standard. Rather than lulzing as it burns. We should step up.
- jbooth 15y agoThat's sort of like telling insurgents that they should engage in an infantry battle instead of roadside bombs. You can disagree with the cause but it's pretty obvious, given their capabilities, that they have to play by different rules. Lulzsec don't have a half dozen global media organizations to push their point of view -- they have funny website redirects and email dumps. So that's what they're doing. EDIT: Hey downmodder, read, I gave you permission to disagree with the cause if you want. Comment is about tactics.
- panacea 15y agoIf we're torturing analogies, that's like a child saying "but he started it!" There seems to be a momentum developing based on adults who have been maintaining pressure on this story through legal investigative journalism... setting fire to a paper bag filled with shit on their doorstep and ringing the bell doesn't help. (edit: didn't downvote you btw... that's for the drive-by kids)
- r0s 15y ago
- grifaton 15y agoSeems that the websites of all of NI's newspapers are down: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ http://www.thetimes.co.uk/ http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/ http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/ http://www.thesun.co.uk/ http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/ http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/
- anigbrowl 15y agoNews 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 committee meeting tomorrow morning, his stockholders seem almost certain to revolt. I'm kind of surprised that his board hasn't cut him loose yet. This Lulzsec joke is in poor taste, but right on the money as a piece of satire. Curiously reminiscent of a 19th century Thomas Nast cartoon jesting about the funeral of NY Tribune publisher (and neckbeard extraordinaire) Horace Greeley. EDIT: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-18/news-corp-said-to-consider-naming-chase-carey-as-ceo-suceeding-murdoch.html http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-18/news-corp-said-to-c... suggests NWSA is indeed planning to give Murdoch the boot. Oh, how the mighty are fallen. EDIT II: A more illuminating story from the trades http://www.adweek.com/news/television/if-rupert-goes-chase-carey-next-news-corp-ceo-133321 http://www.adweek.com/news/television/if-rupert-goes-chase-c... Edit III: I can't help noticing that Mr Carey looks an awful lot like the Lulzsec mascot with those curly mustachios. Coincidence? I think not! I'll show myself out
- teyc 15y agoMurdoch would have done better if he continued to make up news instead of trying to hack phones and report the truth.
- thematt 15y agoTo be sure, he is ultimately responsible, but I highly doubt he himself sanctioned or approved of those actions.
- klenwell 15y agoFrom what I've read, in the WSJ editorial today perhaps foremost, he sanctions those activities implicitly if not explicitly. Don't forget in the midst of all this the NY Post front page story alleging DSK accuser not only of being hooker but pimped by her union! If it is the end of Murdoch, good riddance.
- jchrisa 15y agoThis is the first time I've seen them "call their shots" - that is, this isn't just whoever they could bust into.
- hack_edu 15y agoThis is untrue. Hacks against the Arizona cops and (secondary) attacks on Sony were 'called' as well.
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- sabat 15y agoIt 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.
- speckledjim 15y agoThe 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."
- sabat 15y agoWho would know (outside the UK)? Thanks for that. (Maybe the lack of apostrophe was on purpose!)
- brickbrigade 15y agoThat's the thing that is bugging me the most as well.
- Tyrannosaurs 15y agoFrom Twitter: "@thecoldgun It's like having a psycho mercenary on your side in a fight - you worry what they'll do when they're not."