Newsweek Writer Going After Twitter User for Allegedly Causing Seizure

>>93355
more coverage:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/twitter-used-to-attack-journalist-kurt-eichenwald-triggering-seizure/

>For the second time this year, someone has apparently used Twitter to attack journalist Kurt Eichenwald by exploiting his epilepsy. In October, he revealed in Newsweek that a Trump supporter had attempted to induce a seizure via Twitter with an epileptogenic cartoon. Fortunately for Eichenwald, he was able to drop his iPad face-down in time.

>Yesterday, someone evidently tried again. According to a series of tweets from Eichenwald's account, they succeeded this time.

>Eichenwald says he's determined to have the attacker—who used the handle @jew_goldstein and the pseudonym (((Ari Goldstein)))—identified via subpoena and mentions both criminal and civil law as ways of bringing them to justice.

>During an epileptic seizure, certain brain cells called excitatory neurons start firing over and over again, something that other neurons usually prevent from happening. Different types of epilepsy manifest differently; not everyone suffers from the "tonic-clonic" or "grand mal" seizure in which one loses consciousness and muscles start jerking. What type of epilepsy you have depends upon which region of your brain undergoes seizures.

>Only some of those forms of epilepsy are photosensitive. But for about three percent of unlucky individuals with epilepsy—Eichenwald presumably being one—strobing lights have the potential to trigger serious seizures. The condition is more prevalent during youth, and not all flashing lights will reliably cause a seizure. But flashing-lights-as-a-trigger have seeped into the public consciousness.
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>Around that same time, trolls with malicious intent started attacking the Epilepsy Foundation's Web forums. Writing for Wired, Kevin Poulsen called it "possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm" and fingered Anonymous as the most likely culprits.

>>93381
>Fortunately for Eichenwald, he was able to drop his iPad face-down in time.
kek
>@jew_goldstein and the pseudonym (((Ari Goldstein)))
top kek
>"possibly the first computer attack to inflict physical harm" and fingered Anonymous as the most likely culprits.
my sides are in orbit

relevant:
>>>/qa/884840

>>93389
why did I follow the link to /pol in there

>/pol/ is the grownup version of old /b/. We're the same sick people, but no we can actually do things in the world... like say get Donald Trump elected president.
>/pol/ is definitely a more grown up, orgsnized version of early /b/ but the early strive for the most degenerate shit around, the manic pursuit of what makes squares shudder, trying to find the worst of the worst, it was unreal-like losing your virginity-you'll never forget the first thread with pics of a dead person killed so fresh the cops dont know...i miss it.
>That used to be /v/s throne till the new/v crossposting began to take hold, and then double down when /pol/ was birthed

>Funny how these cycles work

>/b/ is trial grounds, its shitpost practice for normies, almost like a desensitization clinic
although its since just become a very well organized porn catalogue