For presently obscure reasons , several net griefers adjudicate to bang with epileptic last weekend by posting flashing and multicolored mental image in a living assembly bleed by the non-profit-making Epilepsy Foundation . About three percent of epileptics are photosensitive , which means that the flashing lights and colour can trigger megrim or seizures . Way to go , assholes .
Monitors of the Epilepsy Foundation ’s display panel responded quickly and managed to take down all the offending posts about 12 hour after the onslaught start . Though the foundation reports that nobody was kill by the prank , a handful of people were adversely effectuate . It ’s like Snow Crash with few katanas and more 15 - twelvemonth - old kidskin who need to be pummeled in the font . Where ’s Hiro when we need him ?
RyAnne Fultz , a 33 - yr - previous IT worker in Ohio , clicked on a assembly post that stimulate her silver screen to suddenly be overtaken by a pattern of various colored squares show off rapidly . The rape made her “ shut up up , ” she order .
“ I do n’t devolve over and convulse , but it hurts , ” she say Wired . “ I was on the phone when it bump , but I could n’t move and could n’t mouth . ”
Very circumstantial evidence points to Anonymous , the ill-famed cyber-terrorist kin group with a score against the Church of Scientology . But , even with my modified noesis of the hacking world , they do n’t sound like the right culprit to me . Though various members of Anonymous are dickhead , they ’re also holier-than-thou pricks . I ’ve never head of them doing anything without obstreperously attach a cause to it first . [ Wired ]
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