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Dec 17 2009

Are AT&T’s Problems Getting Lost in the Fake Steve Backtracks, Backtalks, and Crazy Backflips?

Fake Steve Jobs, the nom de guerre of Newsweek’s Dan Lyons, got a ton of attention for his Operation Chokehold campaign to effectively DDoS the AT&T data network, including from AT&T itself and the FCC, [...]


Dec 16 2009

AT&T Calls Operation Chokehold Irresponsible and Pointless. Fake Steve Calls AT&T the Same.

In response to Fake Steve’s call for Operation Chokehold — a flashmob event intended to overwhelm AT&T’s data network — AT&T has told Cult of Mac:

We understand that fakesteve.net is primarily a satirical [...]


Dec 15 2009

Operation Chokehold: Help Fake Steve Help You Hurt AT&T?

Fake Steve Jobs has had enough of AT&T and their “bastardly behavior over bandwidth usage” and so is launching a crowd-sourced, flash-mobbed, Rickson Gracie-style assault on their network called “Operation Chokehold“:

Subject: Operation Chokehold
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