Tech | August 27, 2009 | 12 comments

Hackers hit school with Swine Flu hoax

source: http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/5092421.php?

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Today is the first day of school at Voorhees High School in Hunterdon County and someone hacked into the school website and announced, "No School Due to Swine Flu."
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12 comments // Hackers hit school with Swine Flu hoax

  • Eri_Soulja
  • bailey78
  • neonbunny
  • Valentin0o
  • Mikeysfake1
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      Mikeysfake1  

    • Anyone else just interested in the actual hacker? Anyone dare check out there site?

      .tk is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand located in the South Pacific.

    • 2 years ago
  • thewallisgirl
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      thewallisgirl  

    • No one should take any vaccinations....if you are afraid of getting the flu then take a good amount of vitamin D...there are natural cures and prevention for everything!

    • 2 years ago
  • currentlilmexbro
  • Prijedor
  • Buddha2112
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      Buddha2112  
    • Prijedor:

      I'm kind of split on what to think about this. While it is peculiar to have vaccines made before a virus "debuts", it doesn't mean that its impossible to prepare for them, though, don't get me wrong, i think vaccines are stupid.

      The naming of the virus is based on the hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N). While they cannot predict how a virus can mutate structure, they can however cover a wide base. So it's not so weird seeing a patent covering all these different types that 'are likely to form' or have been seen in the past. There are lots of patents out there for things that don't or can't exist (yet), so this doesn't surprise me.

      But then again H1N1 wasn't really 'new' either. Ever hear of the Spanish Flu waaaaaaaaaayyy back in 1918? Same deal. We know enough about virus structure to begin engineering them and their vaccines long before they break out. Good thing or a bad thing? I just think it's a dandy marketing scheme.

    • 2 years ago
  • Prijedor
  • asherp
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      asherp  
    • Prijedor:

      The genetic variations in these flues are such that creating effective vaccinations are impossible.

      The common flu is also a strain of H1N1, the difference with the recent strain of the flu is that the protein shell that carries the DNA has a different molecular structure than previous H1N1 viruses, which would make it unlike any other H1N1 flu virus when it comes to recognizing the virus and attaching antibodies to block the virus from attaching to living cells.

      It was thought that it would cause a cytokeine storm, in which the body's immune system would start a response which caused continued escalation of response, eventually leading the body's defenses to attack itself, but that scenario never came to fruition.

      It's just the common flu.

    • 2 years ago
  • Prijedor
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