V for Vendetta Hacker Strikes at Washington State University

[dixiegrrrrl]

An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from V For Vendetta, in a prank that evidently alarmed administrators and amused students.

The nearly four minute video, which was also posted on YouTube, and has its own website, Facebook page and Twitter hashtag, criticizes the university’s IT department. It also urges the student body to rise up against squirrels on the campus grounds. The rodents, the ersatz V complains, do nothing but “eat, drink and breed.”

Video projectors in two dozen classrooms were high-jacked in the prank, according to news reports, and the video was set to replay automatically every hour. The hacker’s website advised university staff that the messages would stop automatically at the end of the day, but referred them to a batch file left on the AV servers that would also reverse the hack. “This script will cleanly remove and reverse all modifications made to the systems.”

http://www.it-networks.org/2010/11/11/v-for-vendetta-hacker-strikes-at-washington-state-university/

[snot]

1. Note, the Anonymous group is LOOSELY organized --

individuals participate in different actions according to their own beliefs, priorities, as I understand. So this should not be read as somehow representative of the whole group.

[TorchTheWitch]

3. you think John and Jane Q. Public are going to believe that?

Not a chance in hell.

[formercia]

2. Link to video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnF8FvXNozc

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Thank you!!!!

For those who do not know...that University is in the deep right wing area of the state.

[htuttle]

5. Perhaps his vichyssoise of verbiage veered too verbose

Honestly though, all that trouble to protest a University's IT department? He needs to broaden his horizons a bit.