Comments on: Anonymous hacks Westboro Baptist Church website during live confrontation

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i don’t agree with that, i think the more they’re heard, the more likely authorities will be under pressure to limit their scope outside of the church itself. Just like the koran burning preacher. if they gain critical mass, they will be unceremoniously sat upon by the powers that be.

By: AirPillo

AirPillo — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Was a lawyer. He got disbarred when beating his kids wasn’t enough fun anymore and he started threatening to fuck up his opponents in the courtroom.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Timothy 2:11-12
A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet.

By: sum.zero

sum.zero — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

are we sure that wbc didn’t do this to their own site?

By: kpkpkp

kpkpkp — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It would have been more impressive if her video feed were snipped mid sentence.

By: delt664

delt664 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I second that sentiment.

I herd you liek mudkips?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

God of Love? The westboro babtist is not a “church”, it is a hate group. They are in it for the money and the press. Most of the members of this “church” are attorneys, so they get away with this. Any one can say they are a “church”, that is not going to make you a Church! This is not about freedom, it is about being human. There hate is a way for them to make money, by bringing a Lawsuit against people THEY have provoked. They are running a â€œchurchâ€ scam. But, add a bit of crazy on the side just for show.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

She’s great at overtalking, and thinks this is all so funny.
What an ass clown.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

It’s over 9000!

By: Mantissa128

Mantissa128 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know who’s trolling who anymore…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

WOw, that lady is so annoying… so much sarcasm and even more annoying-ness… I think she actually knows why it’s down, but she’s using her sarcasm to put the blame to anonymous.

I’m agnostic and don’t care shit about religion, but she’s just so annoying… I’m not taking sides here, but if she’s a real religious person with her religious values in place, she won’t be talking that way. It’s just plain wrong and annoying.

By: erissian

erissian — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I haven’t used a .sig in years, but that’s about to change.

By: Church

Church — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here, Anonymous sort of plays into that hand and falls prey to it.

Not necessarily. The WBC model is to incite people to violate their civil rights and then sue them over it. That gets a little trickier once Anon gets involved. It seems like an oversight for WBC to pick this fight.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Woops, my comment should read “don’t pretend that this _isn’t_ a historically normal part of religions…”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder since she’s acting as the spokesperson for WBC, and she told Anon to “Bring it on”. Is all hacking against WBC now legal since permission was issued?

By: quail

quail — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

My hope had been that someone hacked her PC during the webcam interview and caused her Logic webcam/skype software/what have you to add silliness to her image. You know, like birthday hats. Or Sesame Street characters to be sitting beside her… That would have been grand.

Ditto on the loving of The Batman battling a great white shark with a light saber as being awesome.

But still, those crazies do have a right to free speech.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

WBC sites are all still down, five days later: westborobaptistchurch, godhatesfags and godhatesamerica.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

WBC thrives off of free publicity as much as lawsuits.

By: TooGoodToCheck

TooGoodToCheck — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think the theorized WBC play is to invite a DDOS, then send lawsuits to every IP address involved. That kind of makes sense. However, one tends to assume that your more 1337 flavor of hacker will have countermeasures to prevent that.

However, I’m not sure that this is actually a mistake on the part of the WBC. Having their site hacked costs them basically nothing, and gets them a lot of free publicity. And if some kids make the mistake of trying to DDOS them from non-proxied machines, within the US, then WBC will have someone to sue.

WBC doesn’t have to take down Anonymous. If what they want is attention and some fodder for lawsuits, then WBC still looks to be coming out ahead on this one.

There’s a lot of freedom to be had in having nothing to lose, and WBC doesn’t seem to have any skin in the game. they’ve got no respect to lose. There are basically no potential converts to be soured by this. Public confrontation is win-win for the WBC.

By: xxuviolkd

xxuviolkd — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

That screen shot is SO FREAKING sexy! I may just have to go lie down for awhile. Give it to them, Anon; and suck it WBC.

Such asses.

And yes, Anon took the bait, and yes WBC benefits a bit, but it still feels really good.

And I’m not even spiteful, usually.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sometimes the lulz really do justify the means.

By: toxonix

toxonix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Since the DDOS comes from botnets controlled by Anonymous, the actual IP addresses of the attackers would belong to clueless morons like the members of the WBC itself.

By: SamSam

SamSam — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Reading that notice that they put up on the website, Anonymous is acting shockingly mature here (well, except for the illegal hacking, obviously), certainly more so than WBC. They clearly state…

The letter was almost certainly the work of one individual, and individuals can be as mature as they want. Also, I think that the most respected and close-knit group of hackers are indeed generally older and more mature than the typical anonymous member. If that letter had been group-written by /b/, there would have been a lot more pedobear and racist jokes.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Any set of rules or laws are a guideline for behavior. Personally, I think we’ve mutated a lot of precious privileges into “Rights.” NO ONE should have the “Right” to show such disgusting disrespect at the funerals of those who died to protect these “Rights.” The actions of this “Church” and its participants in such a despicable and revolting act are beyond reprehensible, plain and simple.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

oh yeah! quick, someone make godhatesxenu.com! WBC copypasta with known scientology lawsuit-bait! It’s too perfect!

By: falnfenix

falnfenix — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

lol mudkipz.

By: GIFtheory

GIFtheory — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

YHBT. YHL. HAND.

By: enkiv2

enkiv2 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anonymous consists entirely of splinters. Whenever anons are grouped together, it is therefore a splinter group!

By: ethancoop

ethancoop — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I had to laugh at the ‘over 9000 sins’ bit.

The most powerful defense against WBC is to use the very same scripture they distort, I mean believe in against them. In this case their over-confident windbag quotes Luke 6:45:

‘Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks’

The words flowing from her pie hole indicate that what’s in her heart is anger, pride & provocation.

By: disneycpalumni

disneycpalumni — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Anyone else catch the over 9,000 sins joke? What over 9000?!!
Was that an intentional DBZ pun?

I almost had to shut it off half way, I couldn’t stand her voice.