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PBS Web Sites and Databases Hacked 387

Posted by samzenpus
from the hacker-supported-news dept.
wiredmikey writes "Late Sunday night, hackers gained access to several areas of PBS Web servers and were able publish a fake news story on a PBS news blog. The group also published PBS internal user login information that they were able to siphon out of PBS databases. The fake story was about rapper Tupac Shakur, who died in 1996 after being shot in Las Vegas, being been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand. A group going by the name of 'LulzSec' claimed responsibility for the hack, saying the attack was a protest against a PBS Frontline broadcast last week about WikiLeaks."
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  • Streisand Effect (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Jah-Wren Ryel (80510) on Monday May 30 2011, @08:28PM (#36291934)

    If they really didn't like what Frontline had to say, they could have at least made their fake story a fake-retraction of the points they had a problem with. As Frontline is probably the most accurate docunews show on american television, if they pissed off some script kiddies, chances are the script kiddies are in the wrong.

    I didn't bother to watch the show because I assumed that following wikileaks closely over the years I probably already knew everything they had to say. As it is now, I am going to go watch that episode (it is Frontline Season 29, Episode 13 titled "Wikisecrets" and was posted to usenet in full 1080i about 3 days ago).

  • Re: Once upon a time (Score:0, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2011, @08:31PM (#36291948)

    If you RTFA you'd know that "the attack was a protest against a PBS FRONTLINE broadcast last week about WikiLeaks."
    Since Fox News isn't usually one to air PBS FRONTLINE broadcasts, defacing Fox would hardly be effective for their cause.

    Anyhow, resume your typical elitist anti- "Fox News" douchebaggery.

  • Granting 1st amendment rights to the government? (Score:1, Interesting)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2011, @09:22PM (#36292206)
    I'm surprised at the response of some of the slashdotters in this thread, saying that these "hackers" are trying to infringe on the free speech of the government.

    Why should the first amendment apply to government-funded website trumpeting a government-funded story slanted in a government-favoring way?

  • Re:PBS Is Very Commercial Nowadays... (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Slagothor (1156549) on Monday May 30 2011, @09:37PM (#36292270)
    I had questioned the E/I as well. From the following page: http://tv.about.com/od/frequentlyaskedquestions/f/EI_CTA1990.htm [about.com] Answer: EI stands for Educational and Informational programming. It is a result of the Children's Television Act of 1990, which mandates broadcast stations to program at least three hours of educational programming a week. EI is often seen on Saturday mornings. In creating the Children's Television Act of 1990, Congress was reacting to a FCC report that recognized the role television plays in a child's development. The CTA essentially reduces the amount of commercials during children's programming, and increases the amount of education and information in each show.

  • Re:Frontline is an AWESOME show (Score:4, Interesting)

    by trytoguess (875793) on Monday May 30 2011, @11:25PM (#36292816)

    From what I've seen, the thing that might have pissed people off is that they did not portray Manning as a hero. Actually, they talked about his personal life problems before and after he started leaking data. Which to me, insinuated (intentionally, or otherwise) that the guy did what he did, not out of a sense of justice, but because his life was fucked up.

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