FEMA fake a press conference

[ciphergoth]

Just when you thought this administration couldn't get any more craven:

FEMA fake a press conference about the California fires. All present are FEMA employess and the whole thing is scripted, but MSNBC and Fox had already carried it live before they found out.

Unbe-fucking-lievable.

Edit: WARNING! If you get a pop-up telling you your machine is infected, ignore it - the "scan" is a fake to make you pay for their stupid product. Thanks for the warning, wechsler. More details from Pharyngula. If you use Firefox I recommend Ad Block Plus which is why I didn't know about this before...

Comments

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

The spyware on that page has to be the most aggressive I've ever seen. Gets past a popup blocker, simulates a window loading from the system tray (or where it would be on a PC), tries to block you from leaving or closing the page by JS ok/cancel with "Your computer is still infected" scare messages, simulates a scanning task, and genuinely tries to force a download.

I think the domain was newbieadguide.com. Definitely one for null-routing, or fiery death.

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Fuckers!

Have edited post accordingly.

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

alternatively if I read it right you can just not install the flash plugin.

Given that that about the only thing I ever want flash for is movies, that's not a hardship.
(For viewing movies, 'wget -O- $URL | grep flv | extracturl.pl | xargs mplayer ' seems to do the trick instead.

[nikolasco.livejournal.com]

I find Flashblock (http://flashblock.mozdev.org/) more convenient, especially since the pages often don't contain "flv" (e.g. YouTube).

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

Yeah, more convenient.

Unfortunately I don't trust others enough to run binary only lumps in security critical (which I currently define as being browser,X, and kernel) contexts.

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

oh, and I actually grep for m4v|flv|avi and other common extensions.

For youtube there is the youtube-dl package.

Serius cat haz a rant

[wechsler.livejournal.com]

http://parsingphase.livejournal.com/18142.html