Hacking the Body

Asinine hackers posted JavaScript based post on an epilepsy forum in order to trigger seizures and migraines in epilepsy patients with flashing animation.

This is the first time that I have heard of hackers doing something so physically malicious. The hack has finally breached the matrix.

via Wired: Hackers Assault Epilepsy Patients via Computer

"Everyone who logged on, it affected to some extent, whether by causing headaches or seizures," says Browen Mead, a 24-year-old epilepsy patient in Maine who says she suffered a daylong migraine after examining several of the offending posts. She'd lingered too long on the pages trying to determine who was responsible.