Cyber War (and Cyber Fraud) on Rush Limbaugh and Fox News
It’s war! Cyber war, that is. Or is it fraud -- cyber fraud? Which should be made punishable by law?
And for once there’s no tale here of some 18-year-old Russian kid hacking into an American chain store or a super secret Mossad/CIA plot to insert the Stuxnet cyber worm into the computers running the Iranian nuclear program.
This time these stories of cyber warfare or cyber fraud are all homegrown. The fingers on the keyboard belong to American leftists and two of the three targets are exactly those you would expect leftist digital warriors of social media to target -- Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. The third, oddly enough, involves the curious tale of the Green Party candidate for governor of Tennessee.
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A fraud. Reports the investigation:
The report goes on to note ten facts about the Stop Rush campaign.
# Stop Rush is a product of the far-left wing Media Matters web site.
# Stop Rush is staffed by hard core bullying political activists.
#Stop Rush publishes targeting lists indiscriminately while hiding in anonymity.
# Stop Rush refuses to prove claims of threats to justify anonymity.
# Stop Rush activists are full time extremists, not customers.
A small number of # Stop Rush extremists launch most messages.
# Stop Rush tweets often originate from automated software, not people.
‘Secret Software’ from UniteBlue allows # Stop Rush to send automated tweets from ‘donated accounts’ -- no interaction is required.
Some activists bully under guise of authority of their employer
# Stop Rush is not grassroots, not honest, not principled…not real.
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffre...&utm_campaign=cyber-rush#sthash.JPri1sNq.dpuf
It’s war! Cyber war, that is. Or is it fraud -- cyber fraud? Which should be made punishable by law?
And for once there’s no tale here of some 18-year-old Russian kid hacking into an American chain store or a super secret Mossad/CIA plot to insert the Stuxnet cyber worm into the computers running the Iranian nuclear program.
This time these stories of cyber warfare or cyber fraud are all homegrown. The fingers on the keyboard belong to American leftists and two of the three targets are exactly those you would expect leftist digital warriors of social media to target -- Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. The third, oddly enough, involves the curious tale of the Green Party candidate for governor of Tennessee.
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A fraud. Reports the investigation:
“The Stop Rush group claims to be made up of ordinary consumers unhappy with Rush Limbaugh’s comments. The group claims to be “grassroots,” just concerned consumers who won’t shop at businesses that advertise with Rush Limbaugh. In truth, however, there are no potential customers here, just a small number of hardcore political activists founded by Angelo Carusone, EVP of Media Matters for America.
It’s remarkably tiny. Only 10 Twitter users account for almost 70% of all StopRush tweets to advertisers, amplified by illicit software. In addition, almost every communication from a StopRush activist originates from outside the State of the advertiser. Thus, these activists are not and never would have been customers… their only role is to harass small businesses in an attempt to interfere with their operations, as long as they are advertising with Rush.
“A small number of politically motivated out of-state activists are distributing target lists indiscriminately, and annoying small businesses until they give up the advertising deals that help them grow, or risk being unable to conduct business at all. It’s not even activism… it’s blackmail,” according to Brian Glicklich, Rush Limbaugh Show spokesperson.”
It’s remarkably tiny. Only 10 Twitter users account for almost 70% of all StopRush tweets to advertisers, amplified by illicit software. In addition, almost every communication from a StopRush activist originates from outside the State of the advertiser. Thus, these activists are not and never would have been customers… their only role is to harass small businesses in an attempt to interfere with their operations, as long as they are advertising with Rush.
“A small number of politically motivated out of-state activists are distributing target lists indiscriminately, and annoying small businesses until they give up the advertising deals that help them grow, or risk being unable to conduct business at all. It’s not even activism… it’s blackmail,” according to Brian Glicklich, Rush Limbaugh Show spokesperson.”
The report goes on to note ten facts about the Stop Rush campaign.
# Stop Rush is a product of the far-left wing Media Matters web site.
# Stop Rush is staffed by hard core bullying political activists.
#Stop Rush publishes targeting lists indiscriminately while hiding in anonymity.
# Stop Rush refuses to prove claims of threats to justify anonymity.
# Stop Rush activists are full time extremists, not customers.
A small number of # Stop Rush extremists launch most messages.
# Stop Rush tweets often originate from automated software, not people.
‘Secret Software’ from UniteBlue allows # Stop Rush to send automated tweets from ‘donated accounts’ -- no interaction is required.
Some activists bully under guise of authority of their employer
# Stop Rush is not grassroots, not honest, not principled…not real.
- See more at: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeffre...&utm_campaign=cyber-rush#sthash.JPri1sNq.dpuf
