4Chan vs AT&T : AT&T Faces the Ire of 4Chan
Our readers are aware of the hacking of Twitter on the weekend of 4th July celebration. It is widely believed to be the work of 4Chan, a loosely connected group of anarchists and hackers whose other exploits have been pushing one of the hackers names on to the top of Time’s list of 100 most influential geeks, establishing “national porn day” on you tube and taking on the “Church of scientology” etc., Yesterday AT&T faced the ire of 4Chan as AT&T decided to take on 4Chan.
The multi billion giant AT&T decided to take on 4Chan by blocking access to the site of 4Chan and it issued a statement that as one of its customers were attacked and to prevent further malicious attacks on its customers,AT&T had decided to block access to the site believed to be of 4Chan although it admits that it did not find anything wrong with the content of the site.
This was tantamount to taking on 4Chan. Promptly that evening on the “CNN’s Citizen journalism” site, ireport a news item appeared that the CEO of AT&T was found dead in his beach house with an over dose of cocaine and in the presence of male strippers. By the time the news item could be nuked it found its way into dig and across the web and the damage was done.
It appears that AT&T has bought peace. But the questions being asked are what does a carrier whose main business is just to collect its money for providing bandwidth have to do with a bunch of loosely connected, anarchist, hackers whose pranks are at most juvenile if not disgusting and if bandwidth is the question they can strike from any where across the vast web.
Round 1 goes to 4Chan that they have shown that they can strike at will.
Will there be round 2?