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Met Police website hacked, tweets ‘F*CK THE POLICE’

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by on July 20, 2019 at 7:38 am
Posted In: Around the Web


It appears hackers briefly took over UK Metropolitan Police’s website, posting a series of bizarre messages on its press section and social media accounts, including one which read “FUCK THE POLICE.” The messages were sent around 22:30UTC on July 2019. The Met Police team has since confirmed the breach occurred via third-party software. “Last night, Friday 19 July, unauthorised messages appeared on the news section of our website as well as on the @metpoliceuk Twitter feed and in emails sent to subscribers,” it said in a statement. “While we are still working to establish exactly what happened, we have begun…

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We’ve surrounded the Earth with surveillance satellites, but who is that good for?

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by on July 20, 2019 at 7:37 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Space, syndication, world


It was only on the fourth orbit, when the spacecraft’s orientation had changed, that they had the vision for which their mission will always be remembered. Shortly after they had swept from night to day, a bright, colorful complexity came past the limb of the Moon and into view.  —Oh my God! Look at that picture over there! Here’s the Earth coming up. Wow, that is pretty. and life returned to the world . . . It has been called —Oh that’s a beautiful shot. the most important picture of the 20th century. from: The Moon: A History for the…

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