Sesame Street's YouTube Channel Streamed Porn for 20 Minutes
Sesame Street's YouTube Channel Streamed Porn for 20 Minutes
Posted 10/17/2011 at 9:56am
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Hackers took control of Sesame Street's YouTube channel on Sunday and replaced videos of kid-friendly puppets with real-life actors engaged in hardcore porn. Security firm Sophos reported on its suddenly appropriately titled "Naked Security" blog that the XXX-rated content was available for around 20 minutes before the channel was pulled for "repeated or severe violations of our Community guidelines."
Big Bird was unavailable for comment and Elmo was last seen cowering in a corner telling everyone he was no mood to be tickled. But in all seriousness, this is pretty messed up and yet another low for unscrupulous hackers, who previously set the bar in level of indecency when a band of cyber riffraff targeted epilepsy patients with flashing computer animations on an epilepsy support message board. The injected JavaScript code caused some of them to have seizures.
In this case, the party responsible found it amusing to prey on a channel for young children. Sesame Street's altered YouTube profile gave credit to "MrEdxwx" with a message that said:
WHO DOESN'T LOVE PORN KIDS? RIGHT! EVERYONE LOVES IT! IM MREDXWX AND MY PARTNER MRSUICIDER91 ARE HERE TO BRING YOU MANY NICE CONTENT! PLEASE DON'T LET SESAME STREET TO GET THIS ACCOUNT BACK KIDS :( PLEASE...LET ME AND MRSUICIDER91 HAVE IT AND WE GONNA MAKE ALL THE AMERICA HAPPY!
That reads like an obvious frame job, a notion that was further fueled when MrEdxex uploaded a video denying involvement.
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frizzly
October 17, 2011 at 7:31pm
whoever did this would know that they would be caught by leaveing their handle. and then try to deny doing it after the fact, it sound like a poorly thought out frame job. a successful frame up would be more subtle yet solveable. after all to be a good hacker stupidity is not a prerequisite.
Architek9
October 17, 2011 at 2:21pm
These guys arent activists trying to send a message their just being pricks.
Device Unknown
October 18, 2011 at 5:10am
Who the hell said they were activists? now you morons believe that every hacker is some activist with a cause? stop mixing hackers like anonamous who proclaims being activists (rather it be true or not) with every other hacker who is out for mischief.
These were obviously foreigners who's english isn't very good, who were just being pricks (no pun intended) and assaulting children for what they thought was a good laugh. No where in their statement do they say they were doing it for some greater good.
ocnier
October 17, 2011 at 1:25pm
How the hell is a 3 year old exposure to porn more freeing or socially uplifting or even remotely related to stopping teenage pregnancy in the least. It's not funny it's just sick and now its getting dangerous. It's kinda like serial killers torturing animals before going to people. It won't be long before the assholes start trying to hack hospital systems and start turning off networked monitors claiming some wacktarded social agenda like the jackoffs in zucotti park. Yeah its real funny until its your child or relative that gets hurt. Good times...... NOT! Oh, well keep it up hackers last time I checked Bradley Manning is my bitch in federal prison FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE LOL. It won't be long till we start laying down the hammer to you clowns if you keep it up. Hope you like prison food and cock bitches!
iceman08
October 17, 2011 at 10:06am
I'm sure there was some statement trying to be made by these individuals about how repressed our culture is and we should be more freeing. In other news, these hackers are bastards
Marthian
October 17, 2011 at 10:31am
I'll say, this was even worse than taking down an indie developer websites.
Danthrax66
October 17, 2011 at 11:02am
While this was extreme I do think that America could be more open about sex it might actually curtail teen pregnancy if we actually talked about it and educated about it instead of teaching abstinence only.
Nimrod
October 18, 2011 at 3:47am
You are a moron. it IS taught in schools. and ive got some more really bad news for you. Teen pregnancy SKYROCKETED after they started teaching it. Sex-ed is just another fraud.
And please, before saying were not "open" about sex, please please point me to any place in the world that exports more sex than Hollywood or our famous bunny mansion.
The stats in my county show that the real abstinence teachings DO work as the schools that teach it have lower pregnancy and lower STDs.
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