Riots in the UK...

[neonleon]

It's starting.

Computer hackers have defaced the official website of BlackBerry owner Research In Motion, in a retaliatory attack over the company's pledge to assist the police investigation into the London riots.

Our colleague Josh Halliday has more details:

The Inside BlackBerry blog was hacked into on Tuesday afternoon by a group calling themselves TeamPoison. In a statement posted on the BlackBerry website, the hackers said:

Dear RIM;

You Will _NOT_ assist the UK Police because if u do innocent members of the public who were at the wrong place at the wrong time and owned a blackberry will get charged for no reason at all, the Police are looking to arrest as many people as possible to save themselves from embarrassment ... if you do assist the police by giving them chat logs, gps locations, customer information & access to peoples BlackBerryMessengers you will regret it, we have access to your database which includes your employees information; e.g – Addresses, Names, Phone Numbers etc. – now if u assist the police, we _WILL_ make this information public and pass it onto rioters…. do you really want a bunch of angry youths on your employees doorsteps? Think about it…. and don't think that the police will protect your employees, the police can't protect themselves let alone protect others….. if you make the wrong choice your database will be made public, save yourself the embarrassment and make the right choice. don't be a puppet..

p.s – we do not condone in innocent people being attacked in these riots nor do we condone in small businesses being looted, but we are all for the rioters that are engaging in attacks on the police and government…. and before anyone says "the blackberry employees are innocent" no they are not! They are the ones that would be assisting the police.

The hackers said they defaced the website "in response" to this statement made by RIM on Monday: "We feel for those impacted by the riots in London. We have engaged with the authorities to assist in any way we can."

A spokesman for RIM said the firm was looking into the apparent website hack.

 

[Jondi10]

History will look back and call it the 'Nike trainers riots'.

Everyone just wanting a new pair of trainees and taking them from kids on the street or any shop that sells them.

These riots are all about greed.

Agreed. If it was truly about anything over than greed they'd be destroying government buildings and lashing out at places other than local shops and taking all the goods and money they can get their hands on. Tired of not having nice things? Work your ass off and make it so you can afford them.

 

[davek]

Lets assume this is based on inequality, who would seriously want to employ any of these yobs? Would the businesses that have been destroyed hire them? Would the emergency services they've abused employ them? Would any of the local residents they've terrorised want to work alongside them?

I'm sorry, but these kids are yobs. If they want to know why they don't have a job, a mirror would be a good place to start because they're a damn site more to blame than anyone else.

No mate, that's statistically not true. There are betwen 10 and 12 applicants per available job in the UK, and a rate of 83 unemployed graduates are chasing a single job.

The economy is failing. Let's not brush that under the carpet amongst the condemnation for individual greed.

 

[neonleon]

Agreed. If it was truly about anything over than greed they'd be destroying government buildings and lashing out at places other than local shops and taking all the goods and money they can get their hands on. Tired of not having nice things? Work your ass off and make it so you can afford them.

It's definitely about greed. I'll agree on that.

The richest ten percent in England are 100 times better off than the poorest ten percent.

And these aren't even the ones that raped the economy and stashed their money in the cayman islands.

Bankers ripped off England to the tune of £850 billion according to a 2009 report.

Quantitive easing has been absorbed by the banks either for capital, further overseas investment or as profit and bonuses. Hardly any is getting out to the community.

Meanwhile corporations rape the land, closing small businesses down, and devoiding local areas of much needed money all the while avoiding £85 billion in tax a year. They also use their powers to wield political clout thereby ensuring further anti humanitarian policies.

Those looters are about 1% as greedy as their political overlords.

 

[davek]

Neon's been doing a great job here. Hat's off mate.

 

[Phenom]

Sex is the way forward guys?

 

[neonleon]

The great thing is though, in this free country if we dont like something we can vote it out.

So New Labour - supports big business, needless wars, inequality. Plus - they are okish with the NHS.

Tory - supports big business and billionaires (and needless wars) and whatever Murdoch and the corporations tell them to do. Will do anything to keep house prices artificially high.

So combined with a media that skewers the entire political debate and can ensure a party gets elected, we dont even have a choice. They are all bent towards big business.

 

[Chang Elephant]

Neon's been doing a great job here. Hat's off mate.

Totally agree, just makes me wonder why he defends arch capitalist, Evil K.

 

[neonleon]

Totally agree, just makes me wonder why he defends arch capitalist, Evil K.

There are eviler capitalists than Mr K.

Which isn't to excuse his failings.

 

[Mutzo Nutzo]

Sex is the way forward guys?

Damn you

 

[Goat]

Neon's been doing a great job here. Hat's off mate.

Yeah I agree, I mean look at this upstanding youth sticking it to the Man.

He must be an MP or something.

 

[neonleon]

Yeah I agree, I mean look at this upstanding youth sticking it to the Man.

He must be an MP or something.

Point missed I think.

 

[chicoazul]

Yeah I agree, I mean look at this upstanding youth sticking it to the Man.

He must be an MP or something.

"Excuse me handsome young sir, I'd very much like to see your naked body. Undress at once or I'll shoot you."

Daylight gaying. Super, where do I sign up?

 

[davek]

Yeah I agree, I mean look at this upstanding youth sticking it to the Man.

He must be an MP or something.

Is he mugging him for his jeans? FFS, FFS!

 

[Chang Elephant]

They need a tw*tting. It's symbolic of a feral youth problem around most towns and cities around the country. Use this opportunity to crush them like the ants.

If there was some sort of social democratic system in place, I'd be well in favour of a ****ting. The only recent time the police got it right was the SPG on Hardman Street years ago after a Liverpool match. I'd pay to see that on the net.