It seems that within hours of AT&T blocking 4chan, the site’s members had launched their attack on AT&T, including starting a rumor about the (fake) death of AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson geared to lower the company’s stock price.
AT&T confirmed the partial block, stating that the company was “following the practices of their policy [...]

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AT&T has reportedly declared was on 4chan.  Do they know what they’re getting themselves into?  Probably not.
AT&T has begun blocking some of 4chan.org’s most highly trafficked message boards, including the infamous /b/ board. moot, who began 4chan and runs the site to this day, has already written a post about this on the [...]

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The folks over at YouTube have their work cut out for them over the next couple of days.
Yesterday, May 20, was dubbed “Porn Day” by members of the popular 4chan and eBaum’s World sites.  Groups of users from both sites began uploading explicit video clips to YouTube by the bucket-load, hoping to dominate the search [...]

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This afternoon we see what is possibly another hacking attempt on Google Trends.
Apparently, the number 5 most-searched-for query on Google is the following (click to enlarge)…

So what exactly is…
“hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha”?
Well, we’re not sure yet.  The last few times Google Trends has been hacked, it has usually been in the form of a little harmless fun from [...]

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(NOTE: For those who actually remember the skit referenced in the title of this post, scroll down to view one of the funniest SNL skits of all time, IMHO)
Who has Time Magazine named as the most influential person in the entire world?  Barack Obama?  The Pope?  Richard Simmons?
No, the most influential person in the world [...]

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That unpredictable bunch over at 4chan is at it again.  You just never know whether they will use their powers for good or evil.
This time they have hacked the MobileMe account of actress Salma Hayek and posted the account details on their Anonymous board.
The poster who began the thread (the O.P.) posted the following factoids [...]

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Has Time Magazine gone black-hat?
As you may recall from Friday, Moot, the founder of the controversial 4chan internet group, was on pace to be named as 2009’s most influential person on the yearly Time 100 list.
Moot was leading the pack with 275,000 votes with an average score of 75/100.  Today, however, Moot has [...]

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Brace yourself.
The founder of 4chan could be named as 2009’s most influential person on the yearly Time 100 list.
Christopher Poole, A.K.A. Moot, is listed as one of 203 entrants, and as of this moment he leads the voting with 275,000 votes.  Jon Stewart has a firm grip on 2nd place with 158,900.
Other big names on [...]

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Something foul appears to be afoot.  The problem is, we don’t know if it’s a problem with Symantec or a hacking problem.
Apparently, someone sent out a message yesterday stating that they received a Norton Program Alert saying, “PIFTS is attempting to access the Internet.”
Upon further investigation, it was revealed that the file in question belonged [...]

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The internet’s mischievous 4chan group, known mostly for hacking Google Trends, hacking Twitter, and other random acts of chicanery, have now used their powers for good instead of evil.
A video of two men abusing a cat was uploaded onto YouTube last week and members of 4chan’s /b/ did their part to bring the [...]

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