Hackers' posts on epilepsy forum cause migraines, seizures
May 8th, 2008 By JORDAN ROBERTSON, AP Technology Writer(AP) -- Computer attacks typically don't inflict physical pain on their victims. But in a rare example of an attack apparently motivated by malice rather than money, hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.
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This is not journalism. The AP messed up here. Putting all these unrelated events together is fear mongering. To pull a quote from an antivirus software maker is ridiculous.
Crap.
John