{"id":1011,"date":"2010-11-15T14:41:40","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T07:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2010-11-15T14:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T07:41:40","slug":"v-for-vendetta-hacker-strikes-at-washington-state-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/v-for-vendetta-hacker-strikes-at-washington-state-university\/","title":{"rendered":"V for Vendetta Hacker Strikes at Washington State University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from\u00a0<em>V For Vendetta<\/em>, in a prank that evidently alarmed administrators and amused students.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly four minute video, which was also posted on YouTube, and has its own\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsu1812.com\/\">website<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/WSU-1812\/166561193368233\">Facebook page<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#search?q=%23wsu1812\">Twitter hashtag<\/a>, criticizes the university\u2019s IT department. It also urges the student body to rise up against squirrels on the campus grounds. The rodents, the ersatz V complains, do nothing but \u201ceat, drink and breed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gnF8FvXNozc\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Video projectors in two dozen classrooms were high-jacked in the prank, according to news reports, and the video was set to replay automatically every hour. The hacker\u2019s website advised university staff that the messages would stop automatically at the end of the day, but referred them to a batch file left on the AV servers that would also reverse the hack. \u201cThis script will cleanly remove and reverse all modifications made to the systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/blogs\/wiredcampus\/hacker-makes-the-fifth-of-november-one-to-remember\/28076\">told the Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a> that campus police were working to identify the perpetrator. \u201cChildish pranks just don\u2019t have a place anymore,\u201d said Darin Watkins. \u201cWhat may have been seen as cute and clever years ago really doesn\u2019t get that kind of reaction today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous hacker wearing a Guy Fawkes mask took over classroom projection screens at Washington State University last Friday, the fifth of November, to broadcast a prerecorded message adapted from\u00a0V&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defacement","category-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bBYZ-gj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deepquest.code511.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}