{"id":778,"date":"2011-02-21T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/02\/21\/westboro-baptist-church-tries-to-troll-anonymous\/"},"modified":"2023-12-03T05:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T11:54:56","slug":"westboro-baptist-church-tries-to-troll-anonymous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/02\/westboro-baptist-church-tries-to-troll-anonymous\/","title":{"rendered":"Westboro Baptist Church tries to troll Anonymous"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-thumbnail\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-attachment-id=\"902\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2011\/02\/westboro-baptist-church-tries-to-troll-anonymous\/westborobaptistchurch\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png?fit=650%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"650,520\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Westboro Baptist Church Hates Soulja Boy\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png?fit=602%2C482&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-902\" title=\"Westboro Baptist Church Hates Soulja Boy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png?zoom=2&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png?zoom=3&amp;resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few days ago a &#8220;Cease and Desist&#8221; letter from the shadowy hacktivist group known as Anonymous towards Westboro Baptist Church <a href=\"http:\/\/anonnews.org\/?p=press&amp;a=item&amp;i=449\">was published<\/a>, warning the <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">terrorist<\/span> extremist church group to stop picketing funerals of fallen soldiers, to stop making vulgar and slanderous claims against certain groups of people, and to go back to their hometown and to leave people alone. In an interesting plot twist, Anonymous <a href=\"http:\/\/anonnews.org\/?p=press&amp;a=item&amp;i=494\">published a press release yesterday<\/a> denying that it had sent that letter. Anonymous goes on to say that it was Westboro Baptist Church who actually created that letter in an attempt to lure unsuspecting Anonymous members into performing a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on the church&#8217;s servers. Calling it a &#8220;honeypot,&#8221; the church&#8217;s goal was to farm the IP addresses of those lured into attacking in order to turn around and sue them. However, Anonymous was unfazed, retaliating that the church &#8220;does not have enough to offer right now.&#8221; Anonymous pretty much gives a lengthy version of &#8220;we give your troll attempt a 2 out of 10&#8221; and tells WBC to go away as Anonymous is busy dealing with groups that are of actual importance. Anonymous doesn&#8217;t dismiss WBC completely though. Should the lulzfactor of dealing with WBC become lulzworthy enough, Anonymous will consider going after WBC. Until then, &#8220;don&#8217;t call us. We&#8217;ll call you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hacktivist group Anonymous has denied sending a cease and desist letter to Westboro Baptist Church. Anonymous claims that the letter was a honeypot created by WBC to lure unsuspecting Anonymous members into performing a DDoS attack. Anonymous warns WBC that they are not currently a priority, but if they become &#8220;lulzworthy&#8221; enough, they may consider taking action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[738],"tags":[443,444,211,445,76],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-anonymous","tag-ddos","tag-hacking","tag-westboro-baptist-church","tag-wtf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/WestboroBaptistChurch.png?fit=650%2C520&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pelghY-cy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20635,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/20635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}