THE DAILY CALLER WILL GIVE YOU A GUN IF YOU FIND THEIR HACKER

[MindMover]

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Source: Think Progress

The conservative website The Daily Caller will be giving away an FMK 9C1 high-capacity 9mm pistol to whoever can track down the hacker that trolled the site with porn ads on Monday. The gun — which comes specially engraved with the Bill of Rights — will be presented to any reader who can turn over the hacker’s name, allowing The DC “to hold them responsible.” Less tech-savvy readers can also win a gun by providing the “funniest and most inventive ideas” on what Tucker Carlson’s right-wing website “should do with the hacker when we find him.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/31/617821/the-daily-caller-gun-hacker/

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Folks, you cannot nor do you have to make this shiet up ....

[valerief]

1. Is this shit for real? nt

[MindMover]

2. I know seems like an onion article but this is real ....

as I predicted our news is gonna become surreal before this election cycle is over ....

[valerief]

11. OMG, what a toilet America is. nt

[MindMover]

12. Personally I would prefer the 3D printer over the real thang ....

[rfranklin]

3. An hour with Tucker Carlson would be torture enough...

probably against the Geneva Convention.

[tularetom]

4. I think they should hire him and give him 50% of the company

He has provided the only entertainment that site has put out since it started.

Where do I go to get my gun?

[onehandle]

5. Makes it sound like a threat. nt

[DinahMoeHum]

6. After the shit I saw this morning (cross-posted from Salon magazine). . .

. . .if The Daily Caller was hacked or trolled, they had it coming to them (AFAIC):

"Daily Caller Scoop: Obama Didn't Kill bin Laden Fast Enough"
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/31/daily_caller_scoop_obama_didnt_kill_bin_laden_fast_enough/

[nolabear]

7. Violence is good, sex is bad.

Typical.

[PSUDem]

8. An abridged bill of rights

For at least the 2nd amendment, they edited out that pesky 'A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State' part for their little pistol there.

[Skinner]

9. I tend to think this kind of thing would make hackers want to hack them more.

It sounds like it is supposed to be read as a threat. But I'm not sure it'll be much of a deterrent. We'll see, I guess.

[rocktivity]

10. Better he should invest in employees and/or software

that specialize in Web security.

Remember when Norm Coleman's Web site got investigated because they didn't even take the simplest of security measures -- putting an index file in their root-level folders?

rocktivity

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

13. Pointing my finger at Tucker himself

He is such a webwhore.

[earthbone]

14. Well..

if I turn myself in do i still get the gun ?

[Ian David]

15. I know who it was! It was Biggus Dickus! n/t

[Ezlivin]

16. Hey, you gotta read about the gun!

Each FMK Firearms 9C1 pistol is engraved with the Bill of Rights to remind Americans about our inalienable rights, and pay tribute to those great leaders who have fought for our freedoms, while some ignoble ones have endeavored to undermine them.

More at http://www.fmkfirearms.com/index.html

[caseymoz]

17. Subject to background check, perhaps?

If not, this seems a trifle irresponsible.

[slackmaster]

18. As a Federal Firearms Licensee I am qualified to inform you that the transfer will certainly...

Last edited Tue Jul 31, 2012, 07:17 PM - Edit history (2)

...be subject to a background check, just as if the recipient goes into a sporting goods store to buy a gun.

The winner must also not be disqualified from owning a firearm - i.e. must not a be convicted felon or domestic abuser, or have been discharged dishonorably from the military, or be in the country illegally, or have renounced US citizenship, or been adjudicated as mentally incompetent.

[caseymoz]

20. I haven't looked. Do they have that disclaimer?

"Don't help if you can't pass a background check."

[slackmaster]

21. They don't have to post any kind of disclaimer. It's the law.

But I suspect that the site somewhere says the transfer will be done in accordance with all applicable laws, just to avoid dealing with uninformed people who get unrealistic expectations.

BTW the offer is posted on Google Docs, so you can be very sure it's been scrutinized by lawyers.

[slackmaster]

19. One thing every response in this thread so far has overlooked

WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN???!!!???

WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN???!!!???!!!???

[MindMover]

22. Whose CHILDREN ... ? ... What about the CHILDREN ... ?

I spend every waking moment of my life thinking about my CHILDREN ... which CHILDREN are you referring to ... ?

Where are the CHILDREN ... and what have all the CHILDREN been up to ... ?

[Ruby the Liberal]

23. Locking - not LBN