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Hacked AP Twitter Account Reports Of Two Explosions At White House, Obama Injured
Update 2 - Obama is fine. In other news, it may be time for @federalreserve to change their twitter passwored from QE4EVA to something more secret.
Update: yup, AP was hacked. Let's hear it for Twitter moving markets.
Please Ignore AP Tweet on explosions, we've been hacked.
— Sam Hananel (@SamHananelAP) April 23, 2013
Did someone just hack the AP twitter account? If not, this is not good:
Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 23, 2013
A photo of the tweet before it was deleted
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Someone got hacked
No worries, the Big O is at his lunchtime meeting at the bathhouse. All is well.
As we speak, news outlets around the world are freaking out trying to verify this.
Edit: Apparently the AP Twitter account has been suspended. So, false alarm.
Thanks for breaking my hopes.....
Hacked. Anyone else see the few seconds long drop in the S&P?
Has Israel blamed Iran yet?
that only cost me 8k in day trading fiat. FML.
You know they will compensate you for the false trades.
oh, fur sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtrQtWo8mXo
I'd have thought the market would go up on the news....
anything to get CISPA passed
meanwhile
Williams-Sonoma Pulls Pressure Cookers Off Shelves in Massachusettshttp://dedham.patch.com/articles/williams-sonoma-pulls-pressure-cookers-...
I think that horse has already bolted....
Who's EVA and what's her number?
There's a guy on the line who wants to do some easing tonight.
Which one of the Obama body doubles? Brazil.
Dang, Zer0head, I just got my license to carry a concealed pressure - cooker, and I just passed my Pressure Cooker Safety Class. The higher-capacity Pressure Cookers are now hard to find...
PC crowd calling for censorship of the Phil Rizzutto call at the end of Paradise by the Dashboard Light to be edited/beeped out
Nobody needs a pressure cooker that holds more than 30oz of cornish game hen.
I would offer to sell you our used, 16Qt cooker, but the wife would have my 'nads (and not in a good way!) :>D
They couldn't go up because all the traders were celebrating.
Find out WHO THE FUCK placed those BUY orders right after the AP news feed was posted. 120k Emini contracts traded on the way down....Someone did this on purpose to profit from this. But of course the SEC is busy downloading porn.
divided, did you follow thru on your post yesterday and set ur buy orders ....
Yo...smallbiz, I wish I did but who cares, this market is so fucked up it aint worth it. I am taking the rest of my money out for good.
i had that happen to me a few years ago..except i had stupidly buy price on mo.....so i won...but i took a 2 yr time frame and emptied our families iras and such took the hit with penalties and taxes and been sleeping like a baby ever since..my pillow is really hard now, but it is more comforting than the one i had filled with paper.... ...get out pay the taxes and penalties....it is like divorce ..it cost alot but it is worth it...
I hope you have a trusty mattress. I was thinking DS...Sprott probably has a massive amount of physical silver. If they can somehow crack him open like a coconut, all that physical comes pouring out into somebody's hands. Like you said this is 2008 for commodities and Sprott would be the equivelant of a major Primary Dealer, no?
Not sure fonzy but yes, if they break Sprott, his inventory will have to be liquidated. I dont know if you know that you could buy physicals directly from Sprott at sprottmoney.com. I made purchases there but it looks like their silver inventory is a bit cheaper than from other places I check (lower mark-up on the Eagles, Koalas). Maybe they need the cash, I dont know if sprottmoney and Sprott Asset Mgmt are related but I am sure Eric is getting hit from all sides right now.
smallbiz, good for you. I suggest people GTFO. I mean look at how the markets tanked and now its back to where it was...its obvious that this market has NO MORE INTEGRITY and NO MORE LIQUIDITY. I would have thought that any human who owns stocks would be dumping after that shitshow but now I know that the markets has NO HUMANS left, its all fuckin algos.
Me (Bender) and my fellow robots wanna kill all humans!
Sprott seems well positioned for an attractive international banking opportunity. Enough said?
Sprott might say something fishy and see his notional silver
being nationalized.
From the looks of overall stability, I think You'll thank yourself quite shortly...
i thought all financial news was porn
brilliant inside hack just for the emotional training
a false true false flag
News-reading algos can detect and instadump in the absence of foreknowledge. Not to discount that possibility, but this may just be a "shit happens when your "market" is controlled by relatively simplistic bots" situation. Certainly a good reminder that investing or even day trading this "market" is a great way to get what's left of your fiat denominated wealth stolen from you.
Panafrican Funk:
" News-reading algos can detect and instadump in the absence of foreknowledge. "
I can't believe there's no cross-checking in the algos to verify something as simple (and as important) as the TIC's (Teleprompter In Chief) location against 'events' like this ... isn't he going to be in TEXAS today viewing a fertilizer factory?
(or what remains of one anyway)(Teleprompter In Chief) IS A FERTILIZER FACTORY!
Dadoom Cham! Anyway, the Chief Teleprompter walks into a bar he says,
"I'm the Prez now gimme a Brewski."
The bartender squints and says, That's not what the other teleprompter said."
The Chief Teleprompter Says, "Whoa, Deja Vu!"
The bartender squints and says, "I've been hacked!"
Six beers later, the Chief Teleprompter goes blank and passes out.
Then Banghazi Happens.
This is all to strengthen the support for CISPA.
I thought this sort of stuff was reserved for April 1...........
dude i feel for you, but i must ask why are you still standing on the rail road tracks....get off the tracks...
Bush did it
And yet no drop or spike in PM's at exact same time. Hilarious, I guess PM people didn't care :-) JPMorgan really missed an opportunity there!
there is a gigantic volume speak on the ten minuite netdania chart in silver
At first AP didn't realize it wasn't true because most of what they put out there isn't true.
Hacked. Anyone else see the few seconds long drop in the S&P?
algos reading headlines- which means they can read and comprehend more than 60% of US HS grads.
Yes, but can they can convert household objects into makeshift bongs in a pinch?
HAHAHA nice
dammit Washington! we need your CISPA bill now!!!! /MDB
all your base are belong to us
What's with so many e-mail and social media accounts getting hacked lately? It's not that hard to have a strong password.
Either that or it's a bunch of complicit actors taking part in a propaganda effort to goad people into supporting more internet regulation.
Hard? I'd say it's impossible in all but theory.
There are passwords where I'm at that are twenty years old, and can't be found (let alone changed) until we replace ALL of our enterprise software over the next three years.
Then there's all of those damn Access databases and Excel spreadsheets that pull from them. I'm trying to upgrade a system now, where the db is linked to three other dbs sitting on peoples' workstation hard drives. They thought they were cool since the main db is on the network which is backed up nightly.
NotApplicable:
" There are passwords where I'm at that are twenty years old, and can't be found (let alone changed) until we replace ALL of our enterprise software over the next three years. "
Yawn.
Not Visa or MasterCard or CitiCard cust-number lists
Not launch codes for nuke launches
Not SocSec-to-name lists of the unsuspecting public
some people still use windoze, which regularly gets assimilated by rising zombie networks... they are even fighting with each other for the hosts.
use linux, it's not that hostile to the average users anymore.
Yes, IT does not backup individual users computers.
mumbo.jumbo:
" some people still use windoze, which regularly gets assimilated by rising zombie networks... "
STOP surfing pron sites while on SEC time ...mumbo.jumbo said:
Yep. It doesn't matter how strong your password is if your computer is a botnet zombie and regularly submits to its controller a list of sites you've logged into with the corresponding ID/password pairs.
Many times it isn't the password strength that's the issue, but the security of the site's software itself. History is replete with examples of being able to do stupid shit like changing a field in a URL to alter names, prices, etc.
However, your point about propaganda stands. The internet is a problem for TPTB, and a growing one as more people bypass MSM and we see more citizen reporting.
The issue won't go away with internet regulation, they need the internet locked down back into the broadcast model from the height of television. Good luck with that, but they can always pull the plug and then let a select few sites for news distribution back online, message forums disabled.
I bet a lot of sites still store their ID/passwords in clear text like they did when i was working. It is to laugh!
QWERTY )(&*^$$@ *FH*9845, oops, sorry about that...choking on a bitcoin!
Servers are being accessed for the files containing passwords. To find software vulnerabilities is
to crack code, to make use of said exploits is hacking,
albeit in a broad sense.
But with strong hard-on passwords you can safely penetrate
the internet, including the social media dark-rooms ;-)
We have a winner! Red Pill please proceed to your all expense paid vacation at your nearest FEMA camp!
Yes, for one glorious moment I thought it had started at last.
Another flash crash prevention test. Looks like it works.
I thought Drudge had sensational headlines.
It was pretty shocking before the thread title change.
The headline was precise, not sensational. And it was updated, virtually in real time, to reflect the facts as they emerged.
.
I've just seen the crash on my screens here and thought:
"mymy, housing and pmi data wasn't THAT bad..."
phew
Yeah. Like . . . if anything happened, we'd REALLY be screwed, right?
/s
...
not anymore, not overhere,
I got a lot smaller at the end of last week already...
so:
bring it on !!
up arrow for your profile pic - big art fan as well
I was watching my charts also and asked myself what happened. Then decided to open ZH and see what fight club was reporting.
Machalle had burrito at lunch. WHAT!!!
Bathing with Warren Buffett?
Possible. Anyone seen Becky since Squawk Box ended this morning?
For a moment there, I thought Biden could be president. Now there's a scary thought.
Joke Biden is O'bomb-a's assassination insurance. No way anyone would make that fuckin' retard president.
That's what the algos were thinking too...
That's what Kennedy was thinking too...
LADIES AND GENTLEMAN...
WE GOT HIM!
Just trying to cover thier asses so they can say the Boston Globe was hacked 2 hours before the Boston Bombings when they tweeted: There will be a bomb going off in a few minutes across from the libray. Of course who can believe the Globe anymore?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4729898931052&set=a.471729397593...
Apparently this was a hoax. The market flash-crashed and is now back to (immoral) normal. Fuck! I missed a trade opportunity.
It's not like there were any public tours today at the White House (or any other day) - only INVITED guests... Much easier to hack an online account then through all the security at 1600 Penn.
Is Reggie Love hurt?
just some typical rectal bleeding.
Yeah, the Wookie got to him and dismembered him.
my office is two blocks from the WH, if this were true I'd have a Secret Service agent delivering me a martini to my office while in lockdown. I'd take a picture and all the stupid sheep would fawm over how compassionate the Poilce State has become.
Thanks for raising my hopes and crushing my dreams.
If a bear shits in the woods, will anyone hear it?
All 300 million Americans turn in your guns right now.
We Are Martial!
All your Amendments are belong to us....
Sincerely,
The TBTF
even the BB's .......
http://i.imgur.com/2uA9rdj.jpg
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whats wrong with that? scared a couple of algos into oblivion
Nice hack. Made me wake up though.
Yeah me too.
See, Anthony Weiner was right. Damned Breitbart
If these reports are true, it's interesting how the movie "Olympus Has Fallen" just came out with an almost identical plotline. Predictive programming anyone?
Remember, a book called Titan, that was about a huge passenger liner that sank, was published only months before the Titanic hit that ice berg.
More and more movies coming out of Hollywood with an attack on the WH/government theme. Makes me think that is how martial law will be unleashed in the US. They're slowly indoctrinating the public with the idea so that when it happens, it will easily be accepted and not questioned.
And more and more movies coming out that are merely thinly-veiled (if veiled at all) paeans to the US military and/or the FBI and/or law enforcement officials. They're not even trying to mask their pro-government propaganda any more.
Add to the list crap like World War Z - conditioning the public for violence on an unimaginable scale. Fucking sociopath fucks..
Hacked, again?
That seals it...we are toast. Kiss every last liberty you had goodbye.
if this leaves biden behind the wheel i am going to be fucking pissed
Accident involving fried chicken? Sorry, couldn't resist.
Bollocks, HFT headline-reading algos just got recalibrated.
SNP ...Drop ....Check ......Re-ramp ......Check
Execute and calibrate
Fuck Twitter. There, I feel better.
BTFD
i fail to believe we could be so lucky. this must be a joke
failed attempt to please everyone.
Cover for the Boston Globe tweets?
"Account suspended."
Live by the sword, die by the sword
As he crumpled, Barack Obama maybe saw an image of the bodies of the many Asian children and women he has helped to kill
Here we go again.
This Twitter account was just suspended.
actually government's account should be suspended. it is hacked since 1913.
DHS is sending all available personel to the basement room of MDB. His mom is very upset.
Cool that the AP got hacked, though. Ha, ha.
Stocks "flashed a crash".
A disturbance in the force, as if... ah, shit - never mind.
And gold surged, so what is the safe haven again?
totally fake. This will be the news needed to propel us up 30 today on ES. There is nothing that can stop the market - explosions = good for GDP. Fake explosions = massive good for market.
This will not even give the buyers pause - its fuel to go more. It cannot backoff now, pinned at high waiting for the massive breakout to 1580+
http://www.hark.com/clips/btmsjvncbg-i-mustve-left-the-original-in-the-c...
Dow dropped 130 then back up 130 in a matter of seconds - someone could make alot of maney hacking twitter ...
I'm speechless...truly astounding.
What a lot of maney might look like.
https://www.google.com/search?q=manny+ramirez&safe=off&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF...
Goldman and their flashy traders would never do that
the internet is truly an astounding playground for liars and the truth. It is now an open joke on itself playing fiction in milliseconds as a new and utterly brief reality in a micro but global reality that is beyond any timeless fiction.
btfd
Too bad I didn't have a crazy sell order on my weekly SPY puts. Saw those double in about a minute :(
Why would markets plunge on that? They should rally!
Endangers the money hose. Obama is the banker's president.
POTUS being killed would make a perfect excuse to start a war. And a war would make a perfect excuse for QE5.
Ergo, bombs in the white house are BULLISH!!
Even the idiots recognize the destructive power of martial law.
Nice scalp there on JPY. ;)
I love it. Algos gone wild.
Some stock market guru trying to flash crash the markets. And it worked.
and cue the new cyber-security laws in 5...4...3...2...1...
You are absolutely right, notice how they are now injecting into media reports how much teh bombers spent researching and communicating on the internet about the event.
I was just noticing that a couple of minutes ago.
We are so fucked it's nauseating.
Yes, in the days following it was like a constant drone about their social media... over and over, just about the time CISPA was being passed by the House.
This ought to be good for a 200 up-point day on the DOW...
Test fire?
This flash crash si what it will look like when Wall St awakens to reality. House of cards is NOTHING compared to what we'll see that day!
Obama: "Lets not rush to judgement about the people, or groups of people, involved."
Obama: "It was workplace violence."
Obama: "It was a lone wolf."
Obama: "It was a bump in the road."
"If I had a son.. he would look like that Saudi National".
Spot the knapsacks!
just a test run boys. mkts had topped and were easing...."mkts retreated off highs to close today mixed, due to a hacked AP twitter, nothing to see here"
There goes a whole host more of your liberties folks.
Cunts
AP and obama are both scum.
"Obama is fine"? When did that start? He's been a shitstain as long as I can remember
just running a drill for the real selling event...no need to panic...YET
SPY down 1% on massive volume for 2 minutes, up again on massive(r) volume the following 3 minutes. This market is perfectly safe, just BTFD and shut up.