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Hackers Vandalize Tea Party Website

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.11.2012

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Hackers managed to seize the reins of a Tea Party PAC's website this week, replacing existing material with a variety of offensive messages, before it...

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Capitalizing on the Internet: From Meme to Marketplace

Greg Voakes | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Internet Memes, Memes, Slidepollajax, Internet Meme Key Chains, Internet Meme Business, Cheezburger, 4chan, Icanhascheezburger, Cat Memes, Lolcats, Funny Memes, Small Business News

Often designed for spreading original jokes with friends and having them gain momentum, memes are now the ultra popular bits of content that provide us with the occasional stifled laugh from our cubicle.

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White Supremacist Allegedly Hacks Trayvon's Email And Facebook

HuffingtonPost.com | Gene Demby | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: 4chan, Trayvon Martin White Supremacist, Gawker, Trayvon Martin, Trayvon Martin Hacked, Trayvon-Martin-Social-Media, Klankannon, Black Voices News

A white supremacist hacker claims to have broken into Trayvon Martin's email and social networking accounts and posted his private messages online. ...

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How To Cheer Up

Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Video, 4chan, /B/, Funny Pictures, 4chan Cheer Up Picture, Cheer Up, Messageboards, Comedy News

An anonymous 4chan poster was feeling a little down on Valentine's Day Tuesday, so she made a post to the site's /b/ message board asking other users ...

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2/10 Would Not Bang

The Huffington Post | Christine Friar | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Video, 2/10 Would Not Bang Meme, 4chan, Funny Pictures, Comedy Slideshows, Would Not Bang, Memes, 2/10 Would Not Bang, Comedy News

The 2/10 Would Not Bang meme parodies ridiculous dating standards and gender stereotypes by pointing out arbitrary and usually made-up flaws on photos...

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'Bronies': Teen Boys Who Love My Little Ponies

The Wall Street Journal | Vauhini Vara and Ann Zimmerman | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Hasbro, Bronies, My Little Pony, 4chan, Fun Stuff, Teen Boys, High School News, High School News

15 young men in this hotbed of activism gathered at an Indian restaurant on a recent Sunday and made an appeal: Could the waiter please switch the TV ...

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How Anonymous Turned Occupy Wall Street From A Fledgling Movement Into A Meme

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.20.2011

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Two weeks ago, Cornel West, Princeton professor and activist, showed up at a tent city erected by Occupy Wall Street protesters across the street from...

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Author: The Subject Of My Book Wants Me Dead

Cole Stryker | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Hacker, Internet, Cole Stryker, 4chan, Anonymous, Hacker Subculture, Hackers, Books News

When I first posted a link to my new book's Amazon page on 4chan, the first response was, "Kindly kill yourself immediately." The discussion descended into unprintable threats and accusations from there.

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4chan Founder's New Startup Now Open

GigaOm | Posted 11.06.2011

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Seven years after launching anarchic image board site 4chan, Christopher Poole aka "moot" unveiled Canvas in January, a re-imagined message board that...

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4chan 101: Message Boards For Non-Hacktivists

Annemarie Dooling | Posted 11.02.2011

Read More: Message Boards, Hacktivist, Urlesque, Hacktivism, 4chan, Cyber Culture, Anonymous, Cyber Security, Technology News

It's that infamous little corner of the Internet known for attracting hacktivists and trolls, but there's more to online imageboard 4chan than Anonymo...

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Web Legion Anonymous Hacks Indian Government Database

Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: India, Internet Memes, Urlesque, Anonymous, Hackers, Islamic Republic of Iran, Australia, Anonymous India, 4chan, Technology News

In a time of government gone wild, the online hyucksters and hackers known as Anonymous have taken it upon themselves to teach The Man a thing or two....

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Tumblr Down: Who's To Blame?

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.09.2011

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A Tumblr outage has sparked furious Web debate: was it 4Chan's fault? Signs suggest the cause of the outage might be less benign. Gawker isolated a...

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4Chan Founder Says Mark Zuckerberg Is "Totally Wrong" About Anonymity

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 4chan.Org, Internet Identity, 4chan, Internet Anonymity, Mark Zuckerberg, Sxsw, Small Business America, Technology News

4chan founder Christopher Poole (also known as "moot") has come out swinging for web anonymity. Though Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg asserts that o...

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Generation W: WikiLeaks Ignites a New Generation of Hacktivists

Urizenus Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Operation Payback, Julian Assange, 4chan, Hacktivism, Wikileaks, Second Life, Technology News

Assange may eventually be incarcerated or worse, but the genie is definitely out of the bottle at this point. There is no question but that hacktivist culture is now a worldwide phenomenon.

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4chan Users CRASH MPAA Website In Pro-Piracy Protest

mashable.com | September 18, 2010 Samuel Axon 88 | Posted 05.25.2011

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The 4chan user group "Anonymous" executed attacks this morning that crashed the websites run by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and I...

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Privacy Wars III: The Moot Point [lol]

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 4chan, 4chan.Org, Social Networks, Social Networking, Facebook Open Graph, Social Networking Sites, Technology News, Facebook-Open-Graph, Mark Zuckerberg, Online Communities, Social Network, World of Warcraft, Open-Graph, Facebook, Open Graph, Christopher Poole, Mark Zuckerberg Privacy, Technology News

Originally published on Youthradio.org, the premier source for youth generated news throughout the globe. By Noah Nelson The Internet: where everyb...

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The iPad Hacker Is Also an Anti-Semitic Internet Troll Legend

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Internet, Anonymity, Apple, 4chan, AT&T, Troll, Hacker, Security, Trolling, Ipad, Technology News

One of the leaders of Goatse Security, the hacker group that discovered a security flaw that revealed the emails of iPad early adopters, has been arrested -- on drugs charges.

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The New Kids on the Internet

Courtney Boyd Myers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Community Generated Content, Social Media, 4chan, Ge, Print Journalism, New Media, Tech Crunch, Chatroulette, Technology News

As founders of two of the most hedonistic and bohemian "addictive digital platforms," 22-year-old Christopher Poole and 17-year-old Andrey Ternovskiy are this generation's Internet legends.

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