Not only did I see themes familiar to me as a journalist, I was also in the uncanny position of seeing onetime colleagues appear in a documentary (full disclosure: I was an intern at Gawker’s tech site, Gizmodo, for six months in 2011). I would actually argue that reporting on the saga may have brought me too close to the action. Davey, you watched this whole thing unfold much more closely than I did was there anything in this doc that really struck you? Moreover, do you think it’ll be as riveting for the average Netflix-surfer as it is for people in our field?ĭavey Alba: As a quick aside, these published conversations have always looked like so much fun from the business desk-I’m glad I have an excuse to do one! But I digress. I hope that people who don’t work in journalism can take something away from this. I am the target audience-I have a vested interest in people understanding attacks on the First Amendment.
#Gawker meme movie#
Then again, I work in the very industry Knappenberger’s movie seems dead-set on defending and protecting. Moreover, he’s able to show how the Gawker/Hogan case could have a chilling effect on media in a way I would imagine not everyone really considers. Now, he does it with Gawker’s role in the media in America. He did it with Anonymous in We Are Legion and with Aaron Swartz in The Internet’s Own Boy. That's not good news for any of us.Įver had your logon lifted? E-mail me: I'll do my best to ensure that your address isn't hacked.Angela Watercutter: As a documentarian, Knappenberger has a knack for showing how individual people and movements can have much wider ramifications. The bigger point: It seems lately that hacking has become the geek leisure activity of choice. In which case all I can say is, way to go Nick!
Given how Gawker has operated in the past, it's not entirely outside the realm of possibility. They might have even paid Gnosis to do it. On the other hand, this whole hacking scandal could just be another brilliant Gawker ploy to get traffic. I don't expect we've heard the last of this by a long shot. One hopes they're all paying attention to this scandal and know enough to change any passwords that match the ones they used on Gawker. If these folks, like many people, use the same logons and passwords across the Internet, whoever downloads this information could have the keys to the proverbial kingdom. Congress, several state governments, and the Department of Homeland Security, to name but a few. government email addresses, such as folks at the FDA, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NASA, National Institutes of Health, the U.S. This list of hacked logons includes dozens of members with U.S. They certainly didn't deserve this, and what may follow could be far worse than the original attack. They're not the most sympathetic victims. And that's just the very short list of Gawker media crimes. Gawker, which apparently aspires to be the National Enquirer of Web publishing, seems willing to do virtually anything to generate Web traffic, including pay $5,000 for purloined iPhone prototype and an unknown amount for a sleazy account of a one-night stand with a would-be U.S. There's a lot of quiet chuckling going on across the Webbernets today. We Are Not Scared of 4chan Here at 210 Elizabeth St NY NY 10012 Nick Denton Says Bring It On 4Chan, Right to My Home Address (After The Jump)
I like the call to make today Everybody Write About 4chan Day The headeline of your post should be "Suck on This, 4Chan" it appears that there is dissent among the 4channers as to whether 4chan's attack on us means 4chan is pathetic and unscary now.īe sure to point out that they are dorks for doing that.īrian M.
#Gawker meme software#
In fact, Gnosis hacked Gawker's internal chat software and shared this little snippet of internal dialog among the site's staffers after 4chan launched a DDoS attack against Gawker last July : Why is Gnosis picking on Gawker? Because it thought Gawker was picking on 4chan, the group of digital delinquents that spawned the vigilante group Anonymous, as well as most of the Internet memes that have annoyed people for the last decade, such as lolcatz and Rickrolling.
#Gawker meme free#
These too found their way onto pirate torrent sites, free for the download.
The group also broke into the site's database, gaining access to email addresses and passwords for all of Gawker's staffers and more than 1 million readers who'd registered with the site.
#Gawker meme code#
Among other things, Gnosis took Gawker's source code and posted it on torrent sites, hacked into Gawker's content management system, and posted a bogus story on the Gawker home page linking back to the source code torrents.
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