Eugene Reznik's Assignment

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/business/media/washington-post-says-site-breached-by-syrian-group.html?_r=0 

Paragraph: The Syrian Electronic army hacked the washington post by hacking some of their articles. This group of people supports the regime of the Syrian leader Bahar Al Assad. The paper also reported that the Syrian group attacked others as well such as Time Magazine and CNN. The reason this attack was made had to with the recent civil war that Syria had used and its controversial use of chemical weapons. The attack was made against new reporters that were primarily against his regime and how he was handling the situation. The group stated in a tweet that it was able to accomplish the hack  by gaining access to one of its bussiness partners called Outbrain. Outbrain is A third-party content recommendation service and it works by embedding a widget on Web sites filled with sponsored links.

         The reason that these group of hackers showed disinhibition was that they simply took their anger out on new stations and websites that they thought negatively or maybe in their eyes, un-characistically portrayed the Syrian government. For days now stations like CNN and Fox News has portrayed Assad's regime as tyrannical and very unethical as the use of chemical weapons was is not allowed on a global scale. As a leading world country the United States had to take a stance and this involved condemning Assad and the Syrian government. The hackers wanted to send a message that didn't really have any major consequences but rather share that they disapprove of the stance America is taking and don't like the way they portray that position towards the American People in the media. Thereby this kind of disinhibition is invisibility as this group of people were not physically scene as their attack was solely a cyber consequence.