Epilepsy Foundation Was Targeted in Mass Strobe Cyberattack

[Danmel]

The hackers sent videos and images of flashing strobe lights to thousands of Twitter followers of the Epilepsy Foundation last month in a mass cyberattack that apparently sought to trigger seizures in those with epilepsy, the foundation said on Monday.

The series of online attacks was particularly reprehensible, it said in a statement, because it took place during National Epilepsy Awareness Month.

“These attacks are no different than a person carrying a strobe light into a convention of people with epilepsy and seizures, with the intention of inducing seizures and thereby causing significant harm to the participants,”


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/us/strobe-attack-epilepsy.html?action=click&module=Latest&pgtype=Homepage

This is symptomatic of our nation's moral rot under the orange menace. I weep for humanity.

[JoeOtterbein]

1. (tears) nt left in me

[Silver1]

2. Sadists.

I don't know whwt else there is to say.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

6. This is worse than sadism.

Grand Mal seizures, initiated under the wrong set of circumstances can KILL. That's PREMEDITATED MURDER.

[Silver1]

13. I think you are right.

It's just evil.

There are no laws in place to regulate the incredible damage that can be done through the internet. And so many are vulnerable in many different ways.

I really hope no one was hurt by this. And if they were, I hope we hear about it.

[PatrickforO]

3. We have to stop these Russian hackers. Fuck cozy bear.

Seriously. These fucks in our power grid and everything.

[dewsgirl]

4. Jesus Christ😳 what the f*ck is wrong with people?

This is a terror attack. Period.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. Don't forget that it was one of trumpie's cronies who sent this same kind of seizure-triggering

message to Kurt Eichenwald two years ago. It triggered a seizure for him and left him feeling unspeakably-vulnerable afterwards.

I hope the FBI is taking this seriously and investigating this with scrutiny. This is terrorism.

[smirkymonkey]

7. Who would do such a thing?

How fucking sick can you get? I hope they find out who did this and I hope they are prosecuted. This is pure evil!

[herding cats]

8. My first thought was of Kurt Eichenwald and what was done to him by online predators

I know the common term is "online trolls" but these people are deliberately preying on people with medical conditions, that makes them online predators in my eyes. We need to enhance our online laws to ensure people like these are prosecuted as felons every time they attempt such acts. Not just when they succeed.

[xmas74]

10. These aren't trolls.

Most wouldn't go that far.

The people involved in this attack are felons. This is a dangerous crime.

[herding cats]

11. I agree completely.

They're felons, criminals plain and simple and should be treated as such.

[Harker]

9. That's sick.

I bet there was much laughter and many high fives over that attack.

Who comes up with this sort of petty shit? (Rhetorical.)

[Recursion]

12. Jesus Christ that's evil

Sometimes I think Thanos had a point