Spaz Attack

Follow the blinking lights:

Hackers recently bombarded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to pages with rapidly flashing images.

The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images.

"I count this in the same category of teenagers who think it's funny to put a cat in a bag and throw it over a clothesline — they don't realize how cruel it is," said Paul Ferguson, a security researcher at antivirus software maker Trend Micro Inc. "It was an opportunity waiting to happen for some mean-spirited kid."

He's right, of course: putting a cat in a bag and throwing it over a clothesline isn't very funny at all. Now tying two cats' tails together and throwing them over a clothesline... that's absolutely hysterical.

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(Hat-tip to Derek M.)