Hacking attack targets epileptics

I find ‘America’s Funniest Videos’ entertaining. I get ‘Jackass’… They scare people, gross them out, or generally bewilder. But they don’t intentionally go out and drop toilet bowls on people’s heads or put others lives in danger.

What I don’t get is the recent hack of the Epilepsy Foundation forums, changing posts so that they displayed flashing strobes and trippy patterns. I find this behavior reprehensible. To sully a non-profit’s reputation, and attack unsuspecting seizure disorder suffers, many of whom may be incapcitated by the strobes or patterns. Thankfully most of them probably don’t know what happened, essentially blacking [...]

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