A group calling itself “LulzSec” hacked into the PBS website Sunday night and posted a comically written fake news story claiming that Tupac is alive in New Zealand. We miss Tupac, too! While kind of a good practical joke, the weird statement claiming responsibility for the attack does give us pause.
Via Raw Story:
Greetings, Internets. We just finished watching WikiSecrets and were less than impressed. We decided to sail our Lulz Boat over to the PBS servers for further… perusing. As you should know by now, not even that fancy-ass fortress from the third shitty Pirates of the Caribbean movie (first one was better!) can withhold our barrage of chaos and lulz. Anyway, unnecessary sequels aside… wait, actually: second and third Matrix movies sucked too! Anyway, say hello to the insides of the PBS servers, folks. They best watch where they’re sailing next time.
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Tupac alive, pffft. Lennon or GTFO.
Paul is still dead.
That explains the stiff animatronic behavior we've been seeing from the current "Paul" for lo so many years.
Paul is ALIVE! I have tickets to his concert on Friday night, 6-10 in Vegas.
Not too late to get yr moneys back, maybe?.
I didn't pay for this concert. The airline tickets were comped, the 2 nights at the new Cosmopolitan hotel were comped, the 3 nights at the MGM Grand in the spa suite were comped, MGM is kicking in $500 in free play, $750 in free food and drink and the use of their limo while I am there. The concert tickets were comped and in the Platinum member reserved block. They also had a cocktail reception with Paul for 200 people and I didn't respond fast enough to get two tickets.
Barb…I love you like the imaginary Internet sister you are. But McCartney…in Vegas? Is Elvis opening up for him?
I liked it better when I was eighteen & heard 'Pac was chilling in Norway. 'Cause even if there are West Africans & other dark-skinned folks in Norway, 'Pac would still stand out (esp. with the tattoos (unless he got those lasered?)). So, there would be no mystery.
At least, in New Zealand, he could pass for Maori. Or maybe he already did & returned to music as "Jemaine Clement"?
If I hacked the PBS website, I would have outed Bert and Ernie. But, hey… to each one's own.
"Let us be clear, we are not gay, we never have been gay.”
-Bert and Ernie, in Boise, Idaho, August 28, 2007.
I wish I could quit having your hand up my ass.
Pretty hard to deny it when you spend your entire life with someone's hand up your ass.
That's a hell of a lot better than what they came up with and would be a lot more relevant. I get the impression PBS is more bewildered by this than anything. It's just….dumb.
Lulz fail. Anonymous would have totally owned their asses. PBS, all your servers are belong to us.
Weird, I'm watching one of our many PBS stations here, now. Some hyper-localized shit about the Bay Area or something.
In other obscure news, Malta just voted to legalize divorce, but will still have some of the strictest laws on it in the world.
Well that's okay for Malta, but can you buy a condom in Ireland yet?
No, but whiskey dick works just as well to prevent conception.
Tune in next week for Brooks & Shields & Snoop, Grandmaster Flashpiece Theatre, and "Coast 2 Coast – The East West War" featuring K Burnz
Dear God, if anyone can get throught the fierce security of PBS, is anyone safe?
Innanity, et. al. are going to blow head gaskets when Tupac is invited to the White House….4 the lulz.
If it's going to be "4 teh lulz," shouldn't it be at least… I dunno… funny?
First Weiner, now PBS? Technosphere needz moar slackers, less hackers.
I'd slack more, but I can't be bothered.
"Hey PBS, we're angry about your documentary so our revenge will be to hack your site and post a story so sensational it will drive more traffic to you on a holiday weekend than you would have gotten otherwise!"
Geez, argue the merits of the Frontline episode or GTFO.
PBS still exists? I thought the republicans got rid of it.
No no, they're the ones who like those three-times-a-year whine-athons with the Four Tops, some guitar guy, and Leonard Cohen.
Where would they get their Red Green fix?
He wrote that song in '94.
You don’t want to fuck with PBS, I heard the last guy that tried got beat to death with a tote bag filled with door knobs.
I hear that their "enhanced interrogation" of enemies include a sit-down marathon of Ken Burns documentaries. They usually get them to crack after the one on baseball.
Who knew baseball could be made more boring.
Truly, this is a man of great talent. He turned a sport that can be the equivalent of a warm glass of buttermilk before bed into virtual televised Ambien.
Not door knobs, coffee mugs.
Car Talk coffee mugs.
This reminds me of a great news-broadcast scene in Scary Movie III:
Ross Giggins: Turning now to sports…
[Cindy types new text for the teleprompter]
Ross Giggins: And… there is an evil video tape that kills anyone who watches it in seven days. It's true. We're all in danger. There's an alien force that's trying to prevent you from knowing the truth.
[The producer types new text]
Ross Giggins: Correction, there really is no danger. Actually, I didn't really mean anything I just said.
[Cindy types new text again]
Ross Giggins: Yes, I did. Every word of it. Everyone watching this could be dead in a week.
[Everybody's fighting over the teleprompter keyboard - the janitor sits on it]
Ross Giggins: Oh shizl gzngahr 7193419 ckin etd vaus erstn gubl chn q shnitzi guorsn blkn 18 469.
[The janitor takes over the keyboard as the others continue fighting amongst themselves]
Ross Giggins: I been cleanin' after this dumb-ass cracker Giggins for ten years, but I been hittin' it with his woman for twelve. Know what I'm sayin', nigga? She likes her some chocolate. Sharpton for President, y'all. I'm out'a here.
Still not as interesting as NOVA, I don't care what any of you motherfuckers say.
Who the hell did PBS piss off? Other than the teatards trying to defund them, but we all know they're not smart enough to know how the intertubes work, much less how to hack them.
I have gotten tired of some of the people who do those fundraising shows- however, I gota DVR to deal with that. Maybe I should have hacked them instead(not that I have any idea how that works)
Doesn't everyone know this? Never has a dead person released so many records and starred in so many films …
Aw, they got mad because PBS did a Frontline piece about how Wiki-leaks is run by a controlling egomaniac who would score in the upper thirties on Jon Ronson's Psychopath Test? I thought they didn't believe in keeping secrets.
If Tupac were alive, he wouldn't be in New Zealand — which is really a white suburb of Philadelphia in 1927.
I bet Zombie Tupac would fuck this LulzSec person's shit up.
Now I'll have to watch this WikiSecrets.
My nephew worked in a convenience store and the day after this rapper's death, a dude came in, grabbed two 6s of Natty Light and flailed around the store with them. When asked what the hell he was doing, the dude said he wanted to be Tupac Shakur.
Tupac, or not Tupac: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to ignore
The slings and arrows of Wikileaks,
Or to take arms against a sea of reporting,
And by hacking end them?
Hackers: still not getting any pussy since 1992.
Tupac? Did he do that "Wild Wild West" song? I get all your rappers mixed up.
No, that was William Arthur Phillip Louis Windsor, known better as "The Fresh Prince".
Guess it's better that some of today's sociopathic assholes just join 4Chan and annoy people rather than the traditional route of becoming CEOs or Republican politicians and fucking over the entire country.
Hearing "Tupac" come out of the mouths of the suits at PBS was worth it for me. I'm sure none of them have any fucking idea who they were talking about. I've lost a lot of faith in them anyway, since they sold out to the MegaCorps. Shit, they still badger me for money while on the payroll of Monsanto, et. al. Fuck 'em.
Yeah, he is a hack with his:
Most successful musician and composer in popular music history with sales of 100 million singles and 60 gold discs, thirty-two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, including twenty-one with The Beatles, he can play 27 instruments, etc.
I can't wait to get into that coma!
Well, Bland sells. I don't want to diss anyone's personal tastes…all art is subjective. But every now and then I check out what popular and I find a definite lack of salt there.
Or course, modern Country music is the worst.
Bland sells? You couldn't pay me to go to a Manilow concert. I am not a fanilow.
But see…bland exists on a continuum. I would much rather see Sir Paul in concert than seeing Manilow.
I got caught in the mosh pit at a Neil Diamond concert once, and barely escaped with my life.
I hear ya. Went to a Tom Jones show once, and well, once those panties started flying on stage, all hell broke loose.
I love ya, Barb, but we'll have to disagree on this. Love the Beatles, but only find Lennon's and Harrison's solo work good; to me, McCarty's is just boring.
I love you back!
V asked me what I would ask Paul if I got those tickets to the cocktail reception. I came up with, "When you proposed to that woman, did you go down on one knee?" Paul would have replied, "yes, I did, but I prefer to call her Heather"
(it's a dirty joke!)
(oh, and it's mean because she only had one leg)
This story really pisses me off. Setting aside my respect for Frontline, it pisses me off because it's so poorly executed. Hacking PBS is like egging your kindergarten teachers car but it's even worse that the best thing these idiots could come up with is a fake fucking Tupac story. Why bother? Why fucking bother at all? It's like breaking into your neighbors house just to re-arrange their refrigerator magnets. I don't get it.
Also, it kind of makes me hate millenials even more, if that's even possible.
Ha! WIN. That is exactly what this is like. Like I said down below, if this had been Anonymous, the consequences would have would have been much greater.
I thought Obama put Trump on the Tupac case weeks ago?
Is it true that Ron injects scotch directly into his veins?
Oh my! Yeah, pretty much so.
Talk about burying the lede–the real story here is the explosive popularity of the Nyan Cat meme.
When the original BOC used to come out on Harleys spewing big league vapor trails to do "Born to Be Wild…" excuse me, I just choked on my broccoli shake..
Is this another Weekend at Bernies spinoff?
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