Bug Girl found this terrible story at Wired:
Internet griefers descended on an epilepsy support message board last weekend and used JavaScript code and flashing computer animation to trigger migraine headaches and seizures in some users.
The nonprofit Epilepsy Foundation, which runs the forum, briefly closed the site Sunday to purge the offending messages and to boost security.
I wonder if there's any way people could be sentenced to 6-10 months of unremitting headaches?
Guess they were targeting - made me think they could do this anywhere and some amount of the reader population would suffer.
Guess we'll have to start equipping computers with Tazers or somepin...
Posted by: MC | March 31, 2008 at 05:26 AM
Let me see, I have a crying baby and a digital recorder and some really loud stero equipment. Six months of headaches..... I could do that.
Posted by: Rob B | April 01, 2008 at 09:03 PM