Boston Police hits back at Anonymous with sarcasm

Published on 02-12-2012 04:32 PM

Is it possible to fight Anonymous?

The movement is proud of saying that an idea can't be arrested or killed, but it seems like the Boston Police Department has thought of one way of fighting back: sarcasm.

A week ago, the BPDNews.com website which provides news about the Boston police and crime in the area was hacked by Anonymous. The hackers replaced the home page of the site with a message and a video of American rapper KRS-One performing his song "Sound of Da Police".

After almost a week of downtime, Boston Police have managed to bring their website back up - and have proven they have got a sense of humour by making a video about the hack.

With straight faces, police officers explain how they were in Dunkin' Donuts when they first heard about the hack, and how they are struggling to make sense of a world without access to BPDNews.com:

As one officer explains, "My reaction was, 'Why would anybody want to destroy a perfectly good KRS-One song?'"

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6 Comments

megabyteme - 02-12-2012, 10:41 PM
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That's a pretty good response. Makes Anonymous look like a bunch of spray painting kids.

eyekey - 02-13-2012, 07:13 AM
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yeah... it's like laughing while someone is doing there best to insult you.

Frankthetank1 - 02-14-2012, 02:38 AM
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I live in Boston and just to let you know most people do not talk like the guys in this video.

mjmacky - 02-14-2012, 05:00 AM
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It takes a bit of the bite out of the sarcasm when they simultaneously try to sincerely highlight the value of their site, which could have all been saved for the end (which they did anyway).