The power of media to distribute information to a wide audience makes "stealing" media an effective method of disrupting or redirecting information flows.  The Media Psychology Research Center homepage was hijacked yesterday by a Gaza protest group.  (Thanks, Larry, for the heads up!)  I have included a thumbnail of the intruding page below.  The page, as you can see, is an angry display of outrage with photographs of people, mostly children, ripped apart (literally) by bombs and artillery attacks.  The frustration and anger in the page was palpable even if the graphic display was rudimentary (i.e. no graphic design team had been hired to assemble the message.)  At the same time, about half-way down the protest page was a small message: "Don't worry.  Nothing of your files deleted." I found that kind of charming amidst all the chaos.  Once I had overcome my panic given my lack of technical expertise in solving such problems and found a solution … [Read more...]