PewDiePie hackers take over smart tvs

Yoshimitsu126 · Jan 4, 2019

I dont know what's worse. Getting interrupted watching something and seeing a stupid youtuber on the screen or someone trying to get people to subscribe to a known white supremacist because he's their favortie youtuber.

Fuck off man you're not doing anyone any favors.

darkwing · Jan 4, 2019

any day now PDP will condemn bad acts

Alucrid · Jan 4, 2019

Pandaman said:
I would replace that 'exploiting' with 'exposing' and suddenly it's a-okay in my books.

Then I hope they took google to task over it. The problem is the years old exploit being left alone, not the billboard explaining how users can protect themselves from googles negligence.

what does their link say about chromecast users protecting themselves?

Dragon1893 · Jan 4, 2019

What a sad and pathetic bunch of losers.

foxuzamaki · Jan 4, 2019

Kinda just realized how powerful/dangerous PDP is

Subconian Dreamer · Jan 4, 2019

Pandaman said:
the billboard explaining how users can protect themselves from googles negligence.

I don't think there's really much info about doing that in a Rick Roll

Triggerhappytel · Jan 4, 2019

This just reminded me to sub to T-Series, so thanks you dumb cult dickheads.

Abudiix · Jan 4, 2019

What the fuck is this shit ? I have been hearing about this dumb ass and his army a lot these days

Deleted member 9986 · Jan 4, 2019

At some point PewDiePie needs to be cutoff right? Like if he really rustles enough feathers.

Akira86 · Jan 4, 2019

I am a Bird said:
but why tho....

they feel like they belong to something awesome, unique, and special. And they want to share their love with the world.
if it was bombs instead of hacks someone would be knocking pewds server over. At least he doesn't encourage this cult of personality, otherwise people might think he was a problem.

Deleted member 9237 · Jan 4, 2019

Tfritz said:
Exploiting security flaws is generally frowned upon.

Seems pretty harmless as far as hacks go

Mister X · Jan 4, 2019

How is this Pewdiepie's fault though? He never asked for this as far as I know.

Hackers just used this pewdiepie drama to troll, that's all.

acheron_xl · Jan 4, 2019

Wonder when the first person murdered in Pewd's name will be.

Alucrid · Jan 4, 2019

Mister X said:
How is this Pewdiepie's fault though? He never asked for this as far as I know.

Hackers just used this pewdiepie drama to troll, that's all.

maybe you don't know shit?

After launching the prank, HackerGiraffe tweeted: "Spread the word with your friends about printers and printer security! This is actually a scary matter. Will tweet everything about this entire #pewdiepie hack later to explain to everyone exactly what went down. Also @pewdiepie please notice me"

Kjellberg did notice them, and addressed the hack in a video segment:

"I love it. Please keep it up, just don't do anything illegal, because that will look bad on me—that's the only reason—that will look bad on PewDiePie," he said. Kjellberg seems to worry that he'll look bad for encouraging illegal activities, but doesn't seem to realize that hacking people's devices to make them do things they don't want them to do is definitely illegal. And whether he owns up to it or not, in the eyes of people targeted by his fans' harassment, he already looks bad.

as posted above in this thread

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...pewdiepie-stops-hacking-because-of-harassment

Jombie · Jan 4, 2019

I'm pewds and I approve this message.

The deification of shitty youtube celebs is scary

ManixMiner · Jan 4, 2019

What's the deal with this guy? I don't get why he is liked.

hacking TV's is such a BS tactic and since Goggle own YouTube and most smart TV's use goggles android OS they should be shutting his shit down and issue a fix.

Mister X · Jan 4, 2019

Alucrid said:
maybe you don't know shit?

as posted above in this thread

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...pewdiepie-stops-hacking-because-of-harassment

Uhuh, now please show me where he asked for people to hack systems to support him? He explicitly said not do anything illegal. He finds it funny though,.

Ravelle · Jan 4, 2019

mrmickfran said:
Why are his fans so fucking annoying

They're called Influencers for a reason. ;p

Deleted member 9237 · Jan 4, 2019

Jombie said:
I'm pewds and I approve this message.

The deification of shitty youtube celebs is scary

I don't think people are deifying him, the whole "subscribe to pewdiepie" thing is a meme. It's not that different from the "f*ck her right in the p*ssy" thing people were interrupting live broadcasts with

RestEerie · Jan 4, 2019

i don't think this news need to put pewdiepie's name front as center other than the fact for clicks. The news has nothing to do with pewdiepie other than the perpetrators using his name as part of the operation.

I don't like pdp as much as the next guy but people really need to read the actual source before shooting pdp on this one instead of firing blanks based on own opinion on him.

Dalek · Jan 4, 2019

The monetization of YouTube will go down as a fucking disaster. It's given power to nobodies. These people used to be rightfully ignored but now every asshole has a bullhorn.

Alucrid · Jan 4, 2019

Mister X said:
Uhuh, now please show me where he asked for people to hack systems to support him? He explicitly said not do anything illegal. He finds it funny though,.

if you didn't want something done would you lead off saying "I love it. Please keep it up" or "don't do that"

Bright-Light · Jan 4, 2019

RestEerie said:
i don't think this news need to put pewdiepie's name front as center other than the fact for clicks. The news has nothing to do with pewdiepie other than the perpetrators using his name as part of the operation.

I don't like pdp as much as the next guy but people really need to read the actual source before shooting pdp on this one instead of firing blanks based on own opinion on him.

PDP encouraged this. He even told his fans to keep doing this stuff after the printer hack.

erlim · Jan 4, 2019

They are a prolific bunch. Have they seriously improved the subscriptions for PDP? Is he defeating that Bollywood clips channel?

I am confused why nobody can check either PDP's trollish racism or his fans' security threat. Literally no accountability anywhere. I'm happy to be away from America these days.

Poor kids get this man as their Fred Rogers.

ArtVandelay · Jan 4, 2019

Mister X said:
He explicitly said not do anything illegal. He finds it funny though,.

The multi-millionaire finds it funny when his army does illegal shit that doesn't affect him personally. And his followers are eager to please their overlord. How is this not encouraging this type of behavior?

Mister X · Jan 4, 2019

Alucrid said:
if you didn't want something done would you lead off saying "I love it. Please keep it up" or "don't do that"

Yeah I watched the full clip where they got that quote. Before the "I love it part", he's talking about the support he gets in general, not the hacking. And don't forget this part of the quote: "don't do anything illegal, because that will look bad on me "

If people hacked chromecast and put on the message "Please become a member of Resetera". Is it now the fault of Resetera?

Anyway, I understand the outrage surrounding Pewdiepie but let's not put all the blame on one man, stay objective.

Mister X · Jan 4, 2019

ArtVandelay said:
The multi-millionaire finds it funny when his army does illegal shit that doesn't affect him personally. And his followers are eager to please their overlord. How is this not encouraging this type of behavior?

Sure I agree with this, he shouldn't make videos encouraging this behavior telling people it's funny. But he's not responsible for people doing the hacking though.

Alucrid · Jan 4, 2019

Mister X said:
Yeah I watched the full clip where they got that quote. Before the "I love it part", he's talking about the support he gets in general, not the hacking. And don't forget this part of the quote: "don't do anything illegal, because that will look bad on me "

If people hacked chromecast and put on the message "Please become a member of Resetera". Is it now the fault of Resetera?

Anyway, I understand the outrage surrounding Pewdiepie but let's not put all the blame on one man, stay objective.

"all this support" clearly includes what he just spent the last 3 minutes laughing and talking about. if you don't want to encourage this shit don't make a video about it when they coming begging for your attention. i doubt pewdiepie even understands the legality surrounding these issues enough to determine what is and isn't illegal.

Kuosi · Jan 4, 2019

talented 14y olds

excelsiorlef · Jan 4, 2019

Pandaman said:
Then I hope they took google to task over it. The problem is the years old exploit being left alone, not the billboard explaining how users can protect themselves from googles negligence.

:|

Are you seriously trying to pass this off as these fucks doing a good service

excelsiorlef · Jan 4, 2019

RestEerie said:
i don't think this news need to put pewdiepie's name front as center other than the fact for clicks. The news has nothing to do with pewdiepie other than the perpetrators using his name as part of the operation.

I don't like pdp as much as the next guy but people really need to read the actual source before shooting pdp on this one instead of firing blanks based on own opinion on him.

Lol.

Dude actively enables and cheers this shit on.

skipgo · Jan 4, 2019

This future blows.

Adam_Roman · Jan 4, 2019

I think it's good to expose a hole in security without being malicious considering it's an issue Google seems to know about but hasn't done anything to fix, but including the shit about PewDiePie is really dumb and makes me feel like it was a 13 year old script kiddie behind it.

Quexlaw · Jan 4, 2019

excelsiorlef said:
Lol.

Dude actively enables and cheers this shit on.

Have you never laughed at a clip where someone does something stupid that either, I don't know, breaks something or hurts someone (or himself) lightly? Would you call yourself an enabler of self-harm or destruction of property if so? And if not, do you think all the people in the world laughing at those clips actively enable and encourage this behavior?

You can find something funny and hilarious and at the same time discourage doing it, which is what PDP did. The thread title alone is inflammatory. The hackers did it on their own volition, PDP finds it funny and discourages it. People seriously look for anything to hate on, but what was that phrase again?

"If you hate someone, even their way of moving their spoon to eat will disgust you". I made that up, there was a similar one though.

Surfinn · Jan 4, 2019

Tfritz said:
I don't understand how he has die hard fans like that

Well he's got a pretty lengthy "appreciation thread" at the old place for what it's worth

boris_feinbrand · Jan 4, 2019

I mean the guy it's promoting is an ass, but it also serves as an accute reminder just how fucking lacking security is with these devices.

Deleted member 3040 · Jan 4, 2019

Imagine if PDP actually told his fans to stop - on all his social media - instead of hiding it in a video where he not only doesn't discourage it apart from "doing something illegal", but also in a sense encourages people to continue... just looking at his twitter, the hacker is "doing god's work" and whatnot.

Seriously. If Pewdiepie wanted this stuff to stop, he could easily show it. Instead we got hacked printers, TVs, and an attacked teacher.

entrydenied · Jan 4, 2019

Instead of calling the person out this is his reply. When your fanbase is doing this in your name you should call them out.

Goat Mimicry · Jan 4, 2019

Quexlaw said:
You can find something funny and hilarious and at the same time discourage doing it, which is what PDP did. The thread title alone is inflammatory. The hackers did it on their own volition, PDP finds it funny and discourages it.
.

For a someone who hates PewDiePie as much as the next guy it's weird that you're straight up lying for him. There's no condemnation on his Twitter.

Raiden · Jan 4, 2019

vestan said:
I never got the appeal of idolizing YouTubers

And regular celebrities? This whole adoring famous people culture is a joke.

J75 · Jan 4, 2019

Gonna love it when T Series finally curvestomps his ass.

TCi · Jan 4, 2019

Not sure what is more sad. The hacking, or the posts here on Era. Maybe Google finally fixes the exploits now.

Quexlaw · Jan 4, 2019

Spoopy Boatington said:
For a someone who hates PewDiePie as much as the next guy it's weird that you're straight up lying for him. There's no condemnation on his Twitter.

Why are you assuming things about me? Don't put words in my mouth. It doesn't seem like you want to discuss in good faith, especially since you see it as my responsibility to know everything about anyone on all the social media and if I don't, you assume _ill intent_. It's the same with people quoting this E;R guy on some social media as proof that PDP knew that he was recommending an anti-semite.

As for your "point"; he finds it funny, we established that. Or do you want to argue that his first reaction that led him to write this tweet being "that's HILARIOUS" makes it his responsibility that hackers did this? You know what, don't bother answering.

MasterSummerSmith462 · Jan 4, 2019

Pandaman said:
so this is the hack?

Are we just mad because pewdiepie is involved?

More or less.

I'd be more amused then peeved

Addie · Jan 4, 2019

vestan said:
I never got the appeal of idolizing YouTubers

.

This might be my first Old Man Yells at Cloud moment, but I don't understand any of this shit.

JayBee · Jan 4, 2019

Exposing at the same time

Mendrox · Jan 4, 2019

Well what anyone helps being more secure. Anyone that was targeted by this and fixed it now should be glad he didn't do any worse.

John Dunbar · Jan 4, 2019

J75 said:
Gonna love it when T Series finally curvestomps his ass.

i'm not sure why people seem to think it will be some kind of comeuppance when t-series passes him. i guess it's the only "victory" over pewdiepie that is possible so people feel the need to cling to it? in reality this rivalry with t-series is the best thing that has happened to pewdiepie in a long time, he's gotten like 7 million subscribers in the last month. and he clearly doesn't even care when he is eventually passed, he's just playing it up for that sweet cash.

LordLichtenstein · Jan 4, 2019

Get a grip.

The guy has millions of fans. This is the act of a few rotten apples.

phonicjoy · Jan 4, 2019

Quexlaw said:
Have you never laughed at a clip where someone does something stupid that either, I don't know, breaks something or hurts someone (or himself) lightly? Would you call yourself an enabler of self-harm or destruction of property if so? And if not, do you think all the people in the world laughing at those clips actively enable and encourage this behavior?

You can find something funny and hilarious and at the same time discourage doing it, which is what PDP did. The thread title alone is inflammatory. The hackers did it on their own volition, PDP finds it funny and discourages it. People seriously look for anything to hate on, but what was that phrase again?

"If you hate someone, even their way of moving their spoon to eat will disgust you". I made that up, there was a similar one though.

I dont have millions of subscribers eager to please me. With great power, etc.

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