Stock market manipulation has always been one of those sweet sexy movie-esque types of hacking. It grants hackers the financial gain, the international news props, and of course the power trip (ZOMG I R LEET!). Now that the economy is in the poop bucket, it looks like it might be manifesting - what an ideal time!
Late September, Google stock plummets after NASDAQ "fluke". What happened here? A glitch in the system resulting in massive amounts of requests for Google stock at a price much lower than it was selling for? Smells funny.
An undated article from 2002 reaches Tribune's most popular list, leading to indexing by Google news, and ultimately resulting in the drop of United Airline's stock. Here we have an article discussing United Airline's potential bankruptcy, but from 2002. The article being undated meant that new viewers were unaware that it was not recent information. After being picked up by other news media sources, all it took was commentary by someone popular in the financial market - and BOOM, stock plummets. I'm not going to make any preposterous claims, like that a 5 line shell script running wget + proxy could have made this article rise to the top viewed list ultimately causing all of this, but it is interesting to think about.
Finally, and not unheard of in previous mishaps, Yahoo! Finance misreported the Dow last week, stating over a 1000 point (11%) drop, when really only 300+ some drop had occurred. Short the Dow much?
None of these are necessarily signs of stock market hacking, and I'm not saying stock market hacking is happening. All I am saying is that STOCK MARKET HACKING IS HAPPENING. Anyway, i'm going to go eat flowers now.
PS. not worth reporting in more detail here: if you're a senator running for vp, don't use web mail for your work. thx.
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