http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-28/letterbomb-who-hacked-sarah-palins-facebook-page/ By Brian Ries The Daily Beast October 28, 2010 Keep The Fear Alive! The inside story of a group of rogue ad execs who hijacked Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck’s Facebook pages—and how you can, too. The vertical message that ran down the left side on Fox News’ Facebook page the night of October 14 read clear as that evening's sky: "K-E-E-P T-H-E F-E-A-R A-L-I-V-E." It was a reference to Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive, a gathering organized in faux-competition with this weekend’s Rally to Restore Sanity, headlined by Jon Stewart. Minutes after the first message appeared, the same letters, in the same order, began turning up on the fan pages of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and hilariously, Justin Bieber. Each letter was displayed in the space where a profile picture would normally be, next to a posted comment. As each Facebook user posted their comments in the right order, the message came to life. Seeing the unauthorized messages pop up on their feeds, the page administrators began furiously scrubbing the pages. Palin's message lasted almost an hour. Beck's was gone in just one minute. By the end of the hour, the pranksters had hit the conservative network and its two high-profile commentators, all to varying degrees of success. They hit The Daily Show's page too, willful participants in the faux-feud between the two Comedy Central hosts. So who were the pranksters behind the Facebook hijackings? The Daily Beast reveals who they were, why they did it, and how they momentarily hijacked the pages of some of Facebook’s most high-profile users. [...] ___________________________________________________________ Tegatai Managed Colocation: Four Provider Blended Tier-1 Bandwidth, Fortinet Universal Threat Management, Natural Disaster Avoidance, Always-On Power Delivery Network, Cisco Switches, SAS 70 Type II Datacenter. Find peace of mind, Defend your Critical Infrastructure. http://www.tegataiphoenix.com/Received on Thu Oct 28 2010 - 23:44:12 PDT
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