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Anonymous Hacker Explains His Attack On Boston Children's Hospital (huffingtonpost.com) 295

Okian Warrior writes: Martin Gottesfeld of Anonymous was arrested in connection with the Spring 2014 attacks on a number of healthcare and treatment facilities in the Boston area. The attacks were in response/defense of a patient there named Justina Pelletier. Gottesfeld now explains why he did what he did, in a statement provided to The Huffington Post. Here's an excerpt from his statement: [Why I Knocked Boston Children's Hospital Off The Internet] The answer is simpler than you might think: The defense of an innocent, learning disabled, 15-year-old girl. In the criminal complaint, she's called 'Patient A,' but to me, she has a name, Justina Pelletier. Boston Children's Hospital disagreed with her diagnosis. They said her symptoms were psychological. They made misleading statement on an affidavit, went to court, and had Justina's parents stripped of custody. They stopped her painkillers, leaving her in agony. They stopped her heart medication, leaving her tachycardic. They said she was a danger to herself, and locked her in a psych ward. They said her family was part of the problem, so they limited, monitored, and censored her contact with them..."
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Anonymous Hacker Explains His Attack On Boston Children's Hospital

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  • He went on to say... (Score:5, Informative)

    by BringsApples ( 3418089 ) on Monday September 19, 2016 @08:53PM (#52921151)
    The description doesn't tell the full reason, so I'll include it here:

    I knew that BCH’s big donation day was coming up, and that most donors give online. I felt that to have sufficient influence to save Justina from grievous bodily harm and possible death, as well as dissuade BCH from continuing its well established pattern of such harmful “parentectomies,” I’d have to hit BCH where they appear to care the most, the pocket book and reputation. All other efforts to protect Justina weren’t succeeding and time was of the essence. Almost unbelievably, they kept their donation page on the same public network as the rest of their stuff. Rookie mistake. To take it down, I’d have to knock the whole hospital off the Internet.

    I also knew from my career experience as a biotech professional that no patients should be harmed if Boston Children’s was knocked offline. There’s no such thing as an outage-proof network, so hospitals have to be able to function without the Internet. It’s required by federal law, and for accreditation. The only effects would be financial and on BCH’s reputation.",/i>

    • Re: (Score:3, Insightful)

      When you have to invoke a fallacious appeal to authority, you've already lost the argument. The fact that you're trying to make yourself sound like said authority only makes it worse.

      • by sjames ( 1099 ) on Monday September 19, 2016 @10:27PM (#52921521) Homepage Journal

        Unless, of course, you really are an authority and you really do know.

  • by Swave An deBwoner ( 907414 ) on Monday September 19, 2016 @09:04PM (#52921213)
    So which is it? Does she have mitochondrial_disease or does she have somatic symptom disorder?

    And how did she end up at Boston Children's Hospital instead of at Tufts where they originally diagnosed mitochondrial disease?

    And did the medical team at Tufts consult with the team at BCH at any point? Or did they just wash their hands of the situation?
    • Re: (Score:3, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward

      Going purely by the articles on this:

      And how did she end up at Boston Children's Hospital instead of at Tufts where they originally diagnosed mitochondrial disease?

      One of her doctors moved to BCH, so they went there thinking they could continue the already working treatment with a doctor already aware of the genetic disease. Instead they got a hack job, who in absence of any expertise, decided that an eating disorder can only be caused by mistreatment.

      And did the medical team at Tufts consult with the team at BCH at any point?

      There was just one meeting between BCH and a Tufts doctor and that was limited to a psychologist with no expertise on genetic diseases (BCH) and a specialist on genetic diseases (Tuft

  • by Princeofcups ( 150855 ) <john@princeofcups.com> on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @12:27AM (#52921907) Homepage

    Something here does not ring true. The only information we have is from the parents and patient, because no one else is talking, due to the law suits. I refuse to draw any conclusions until we know the whole story.

  • You only ever hear one side of almost any medical story, because patients (normally for good reasons) have a right to almost total confidentiality. Doctors can say practically nothing about individual cases without the express, written consent of the patient. Obviously this is not going to be given if there is a complaint against the doctor or hospital in question. The patients are at liberty to say anything at all about the case and nobody is able to correct them if they lie or misunderstand things. I've b
  • by entropy01 ( 2618347 ) on Tuesday September 20, 2016 @07:11AM (#52922803)
    The family went broke fighting this. You can donate here if you want to help: http://justiceforjustina.com/ [justiceforjustina.com]
  • In the past people would just have gone postal on their asses.

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