HW 18: Hackers Aren't Cool

After browsing through some of Wonkette's recent posts, I came across one that was very disturbing. The blog was named "Who Will Stop America's Real Terrorists?", and I instantly became interested in what the blog was about. On the website, found on http://wonkette.com/politics/dept'-of-internet-hate-machines/who-will-stop-americas-real-terrorists-308420.php, the blog has a short summary of the "real terrorists" and has a video attached. After reading the summary and watching the video I learned that there is a group that call themselves "Anonymous", who hack into peoples Myspace accounts, emails, and other online communications. They do this to random people, and if the people fight back, there are consequences such as death threats. They hack into accounts and receive peoples passwords, post inappropriate pictures on people's sites, and plant viruses on them. They have even hacked into children's online games and post racial and inappropriate things on them. This I found disturbing, but then I read and watched more and found that they go even farther and leave threats on family's answer machines because "Annoymous" has discovered many families phone numbers and addresses. I found this disturbing and scary because the people that they do this to are random, innocent people. Many hope that this group will get bored and tired of doing this "hobby", yet even with police and the FBI involved, they still continue. I was very bothered by this event and hope that it comes to a stop so that innocent people do not have to go through these unnecessary horrible events.