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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumswho was here when the hack occurred?
i was and it was scary as hell.
it was an impressive hack, not that i've seen a lot, but they basically took over DU.
'God Emperor' was the title of EVERY post.
who the hell were these people...???
do they leave 'fingerprints'?
Siwsan
(26,327 posts)I was here both times. Damn.
Still Sensible
(2,870 posts)JonLP24
(29,322 posts)There weren't any god emperor posts in the Sports forum which I last posted before the shutdown, the post is still there.
tavernier
(12,416 posts)When I saw God emperor I knew immediately, and then some strange faces, like an old black and white film.
It really was surreal and unbelievable.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)It was frightening. I didn't understand what I was seeing at first. Hope we never see anything like it again!
wryter2000
(46,133 posts)It was awful.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)God Emperor my ass!
Island Blue
(5,819 posts)Very scary, and it seemed like a bad omen for the rest of the day/night.
UTUSN
(70,786 posts)"In the military sciences, the term military campaign applies to large scale, long duration, significant military strategy plan "incorporating a series of inter-related military operations or battles forming a distinct part of a larger conflict often called a war.
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This one could be named something like "Operation Drumpf Attack" and all of you deserve the medal!1
spanone
(135,929 posts)chimpymustgo
(12,774 posts)I was there for round 2. What a demonic hack. We'll be talking more about this in the days the come.
spanone
(135,929 posts)evil shit.
ailsagirl
(22,907 posts)Must be hard living with that venomous stuff constantly eating away at you
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)The day we found out Kephra died
DU Panic Room
2004 Election win- loss
Grey warrior free the duck
Swampy Photoshop
Andy😞
The"creature from my uncles cabin" thread
The God Emperor Hack
UTUSN
(70,786 posts)Plus a general DU for us all. The hack ought to be like a Purple Heart!1
spanone
(135,929 posts)malaise
(269,288 posts)wildeyed
(11,243 posts)The God Emperor Hack was the perfect end to a craptastic primary season. Just an epic unraveling. It felt right to me. Better than fiction.
I know others were upset and it was hard on the admins, but considering what happened later in the evening, it was just as well for me. At least we didn't have to bleed publicly.
At first I thought someone was posting dupes, but then it started spreading beyond the main forums and that video auto started.
spanone
(135,929 posts)as soon as i saw that image of trump floating around in the car with a gun....jeeeebus
craaaazy
kentuck
(111,111 posts)That took you to some fellow named Johann Schmitt that was in Australia... and at the end of his video, he had the same ad for Trump that showed up on DU. I don't know if it means anything or not?
haele
(12,693 posts)I felt like I was standing in the street trying to put the door key into a lock that was no longer there...
It was a cascade effect, started in GD2016. I was thinking it was very sophisticated at the time. The local network firewall kept kicking in as soon as the hack moved into a new forum.
Haele
ailsagirl
(22,907 posts)Esp. when dumdum's photo suddenly filled up the screen
x 100,000,000
spanone
(135,929 posts)ailsagirl
(22,907 posts)I even rebooted my computer (obviously made no difference)
"sigh"
So much has happened in a week
GoCubsGo
(32,102 posts)If that asshole or assholes thought I was going to watch their bullshit video, they are even more deluded than I believe they are.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)and the Trump God Emperor thing originated on 4chan and Reddit so it probably came from there
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)I was on the Greatest Page, and one their lame animation popped up, I couldn't go anywhere.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I think I knew we were going to lose in that moment.
KT2000
(20,605 posts)to the first page and the video started. Thought it would end but kept going with awful music. Saw the front pages float by that were Murdoch type tabloids. Sick stuff - hope it is possible to find out who did it and sue them for all the costs incurred by the admins.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)And I thought it was just spamming. A few posts saying DU was hacked were interspersed with God Emperor
Greybnk48
(10,182 posts)Tech dummy, here. I thought it was a troll just posting that over and over. I left for a bit and tried to come back and it was a no go. Then I realized that's what it was. It's been a looooooong week.
spanone
(135,929 posts)Greybnk48
(10,182 posts)Maven
(10,533 posts)and not having DU on that awful election night just added to the nightmare. A day where the forces of evil won.
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)Came back a few times to the same shit before it was finally shut down. The night dragged on and turned into one of the worst nights of my 69 years on this earth -- DU down and Donald F***ing Trump elected.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)I think I blocked a couple legitimate members before I realized what was going on.
nonpareil
(71 posts)I was online when it happened. One moment everything was fine, then everything went crazy. Not long after DU was hacked my picture on MSNBC froze and I lost both cable and internet! I checked on the outage on my phone and found out that Comcast was expecting us to be out for hours. Thankfully it was only out an hour. But that was one eerie hour.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,451 posts)It was hard to login. Got in for a moment then everything shut down.
callous taoboy
(4,595 posts)I was at work using a computer when it happened. I just went out for a beer. I thought it was a hack, but the whole "God Emperor" thing was just so juvenile.
No, I didn't get rattled until I got a call from a friend around 5:00 and he said that a very bright friend of his said that Hillary would not be winning tonight. THAT left me with a major pit in my stomach.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)Pointing at me with a caption saying get in faggot, While that god awful music played with no ending.
spanone
(135,929 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)I didn't know DU would be gone that long!
herding cats
(19,569 posts)I then ran around checking on various devices/OS, and then proceeded to run my virus and malware scanners.
EarlG was on and had posted in MIRT, which didn't turn into "God Emperor" hell zone, that they were aware of the situation. Then they took us down.
I was also on when it came back up briefly. When we went back down so quickly I knew we were in for a long outage.
Malicious code is a dime a dozen out there now-a-days. The reality is they'll probably never catch the person who did this to us. I just hope the karma bus runs over them, backs up, and proceeds to do the same again X10 on their ass.
It scared the shit out of me. I guess that was part of their point- take down, disrupt and terrorize.
Quite the attention grabber it was.
malaise
(269,288 posts)and the Emperor God all over DU.
Hacking is a crime.
spanone
(135,929 posts)i logged off immediately....then kept coming back to see what was going on till it shutdown.
it was damned scary.....i'm sure the FBI is all over it, just like they were the hacking of the dnc.....
malaise
(269,288 posts)and DU came back for a few minutes and then......
boston bean
(36,225 posts)independentpiney
(1,510 posts)before it started to replicate across the board. When I finished the jury and it took me back the latest page, it was everywhere and then the video popped up on my screen. I closed down my browser and ran anti-virus and malware bytes immediately. It was a really ominous sign of what was to come that night and for the next few years.
It was awful.
William Seger
(10,793 posts)... but instead they thwarted those who came here to gloat and feed on our anguish. The hackers should apologize to the deplorables for spoiling their hate party.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,834 posts)I logged out, pronto.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)At first I thought it was me. Then I saw that every post was changed. I figured that a hacked had occurred by then.
It wasn't long before DU was shut down.
wildeyed
(11,243 posts)All that crazy music and videos. It was very strange.
LeftInTX
(25,786 posts)I experienced a pop up the filled my entire computer screen.
Raster
(20,998 posts)I knew immediately it was a hack and knew who was most likely responsible: 4-chan and reddit Trump fans... I don't say supporters, because they are more "fans" than "supporters."
God Emperor is a term/title from Frank Herbert's "Dune" series... some of my favorite scifi.
I know about the Trump reddit subgroups and quietly perused to slate my curiosity. They reddit bros made no bones about using "hacks, hashtags and memes" to influence the election.
https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/23/oculus-founder-responds-to-nimble-america-political-controvers/
Last night The Daily Beast reported that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is the "NimbleRichMan" behind a group of Donald Trump supporters pushing anti-Hillary Clinton memes, and now Luckey has responded. In a Facebook post claiming recent news stories don't accurately reflect his views (and light on references to either shitposting or meme magic), the 24-year-old claimed his support of the Nimble America group consisted of a $10,000 donation because he "thought the organization had fresh ideas," and that he did not write the posts credited to the pseudonym or delete the account.
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Unfortunately, the post also fails to answer our biggest question about the scandal -- that someone out there is actually paying for 4chan-style posts and blatantly ignorant Pepe memes. That's the kind of thing you do for the love, and seeing it commercialized by deep-pocketed private interests breaks my heart.
Update: Apparently contrary to the statement, The Daily Beast reporter Ben Collins has posted emails from Luckey earlier in the week claiming he made the posts under the NRM name.
4chan and Reddit bombarded debate polls to declare Trump the winner
http://www.dailydot.com/layer8/trump-clinton-debate-online-polls-4chan-the-donald/
You may be getting trolled right now without even knowing it.
Donald Trump supporters artificially manipulated the results of online polls to create a false narrative that the Republican nominee won the first presidential debate on Monday night.
The efforts originated from users of the pro-Trump Reddit community r/The_Donald and 4chan messaged boards, which bombarded around 70 polls, including those launched by Time, Fortune, and CNBC.
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Some Donald Trump Supporters Are Now Calling Him God Emperor
Things are getting really bizarre in Reddits largest pro-Trump group.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-god-emperor-creepy-reddit_us_579a6970e4b08a8e8b5d38b5
The messages are written, we hope, with some sense of irony. And yet they are so very creepy.
Hundreds of posts in Reddits The_Donald forum ― where Donald Trump this week participated in a Q&A session ― refer to the Republican presidential nominee as God Emperor.
The practice of using this name for Trump apparently caught on last spring. New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman wrote in May about the deluge of anti-Semitic hate hed received from self-identified Trump supporters, including Nazi iconography of the shiftless, hooknosed Jew from a user called Trump God Emperor.
Among Trumps active online supporters, using the nickname is now commonplace. The post announcing Trumps participation in the Q&A heralded our God Emperor, and a search of the phrase returned over 200 posts in the day after Trumps appearance.
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Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)I had harbored a secret fear that the Russians would somehow control the outcome of the election. Their connection to Trump was being more and more clear as election day approached. When the hack went down, my first thought was that all opposition voices were going to be muted.
I'm still not convinced that this was not the case.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Have to be prepared for it to happen during the midterms.