to suggest that the hackers really need to get

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1. A sense of proportion
2. A new hobby
3. A life
4. Some help

OK I saw that on a tweet.... but seriously..... I'm a bloke. An old one. I've been coming on here to find advice for sons/daughters with children for years and I've rarely objected to anything I've read on here.
And what I have seen has been fairly quickly laughed down/argued against by the regulars.
I just don't get it

Thing is, if he's that clever, why on earth hack Mumsnet of all sites? Why not a bank website, or FBI's most wanted list or something?

I just don't geddit!

Hope I've not given him ideas now...

I've just spent much of the morning that I couldn't get on here watching videos of Brock o'Hurn (the American PT with the man bun).

Seems like a much more productive and mutually enjoyable way to get attention from 5m housewives on the internet if you're really that desperate. Take note @DadSec.

wannabe you really think it would be better if they hacked a bank?

5. Laid

He would get fame if he hacked Boris Johnson and his email, they press would enjoy that.

noiwontstoptalking, that is not what wannabe is suggesting. It's more a 'why would a seemingly intelligent hacker attack a harmless site such as MN, when there are so many other sites that would cause much more impact/uproar in the world'. So not better, but more logical from a hacker wanting to have a proper impact point of view.

The Ashley Madison attack makes much more sense, as it's morally wrong to cheat and big wigs are exposed. If I were a hacker, that would be my aim.

I knew I'd missed something GoooRooo

And a hacking of RBS would release some eye opening info, I'm sure.

I actually would say that Mumsnet was attacked because of the ideologies of feminism, liberalism that the sites members widely follow.

I am a father and have not come across any sort of abuse/hate from mumsnetters.

It is technically an act of cyber terrorism what these people have done.

I don't believe it is a bunch of pissed off men, because if you were truly pissed off with

Oh and the hacker is not that clever, DDOS attacks are the easiest form of hacking.

People who are skilled enough to "be Jeremy" are not unintelligent.

In fact, quite the reverse.

So why?

Well until they are unmasked we won't know. Could be a middle aged IT professional, a disaffected teen or a poster with an axe to grind - not all hackers are male and Dadsec is a good way to misdirect perhaps - upshot there is no point in making assumptions.

We don't know.

What we do know is that MNHQ need to step up their security protocol (which they say they have done) and get an anti-D-DOS service.

Some people hack simply because they can and enjoy the fallout. It's a power trip and nothing really about the site itself - rather its overall lack of good security practice....

You'd think so. Then again, some people lose all ability to think clearly and act appropriately when something they don't like/understand happens.

I thought this blog post was an interesting read.

It's starting to feel like an episode of Pretty Little Liars. Who is 'J'? Summer of answers my arse.

6. The fuck away from mumsnet.

nothing really about the site itself - rather its overall lack of good security practice....

Why not netmums then? (Because their most active thread was the MN thread, that's why)

My personal angle on life is - if it is pissing people off then I must be doing something right. So chin chin hackerman. Onwards and upwards.

Also Netmums is much less heard about in the media, you rarely hear and this happened on Netmums in the newspapers.

I feel for them. They must be something lacking if they get pleasure from this...(not talking about sizing...promise) if i had their talent id be doing something useful...like finding cure to cancer..

Yes, it's not just the less than tight security. Members in NM have a lot more privacy to lose.
It's the ethos and the size of the site. The impact it has on women and society.

They have a death wish...pissing off legions of women...and blokes...and risking hard stares!

Maybe the MN collective can think of suitable and appropriate punishment when whoever is caught..

Why not hack it? Their security is obviously lacking greatly and is really poor. Is it harmless - absolutely not but then if you have a multi million pound business you should look after it better .

But as there's no monetary transactions and people's lives don't depend on it, I don't think it made sense to consider it a potential target. No much harm done so far, except for loss of profit for a few days and mild annoyance by members.

Jeffrey wank features cock bucket hacked Mumsnet because he hates women.

Mumsnet is full of feisty, intelligent women who robustly round on arseholes.

Jeffrey, with his sad little personality and shrivelled ball sack can't cope with that so bashes away at his computer shuddering gleefully to orgasm as his attack works (intermittently).

Hack mumsnet because they can.because it's there, bit like a mountain. Mumsnet is well used and very popular, no point hacking something no one uses or cares about

Mumsnet is clearly- and I can't believe that No one else has realised - a trojan horse to promote an anti- men and anti-father agenda built by feminists to further their already well established world domination. And anyone who does not agree with that philosphy is part of the problem. Luckily the venn diagram of hackers and disaffected men targetted by women has a big overlap.

sheeze it's obvious no? All the threads about cake and penis beakers and naice ham is an elaborate ploy....