prank

Honestly, when was the last April Fool's prank that "got you" or made you laugh?

I had a similar situation when I was 14 years old making prank phone calls.

Isn't the whole "security industry" a prank gone bad?

April first isn't a generalized satire day, it's about pranks.

You have to have a pretty addled mind in order to find an obvious prank such as this "terrifying.

I don't think that really qualifies as a good prank, more of a harassment/endangerment tactic.

Analyzing cell tower data over a harmless prank?

Example: some kids in the middle school my son goes to played a prank in the computer lab: they swapped a bunch of keys of some of the keyboards.

They're probably mad that some pranksters conclusively demonstrated that, for all the security theater in NYC, the police can't even stop people from planting stuff on a major bridge.

There are lots of more reasonable explanations for text getting deleted than "state agency wanted to play a juvenile prank on me and be glaringly obvious about it".

Given that this could have easily resulted in a death, calling it a "prank" and suggesting that "Whomever instigated the swatting should be ashamed of themselves" seems the wrong of language for what is a pretty serious crime.

Authorities are refusing to confirm or deny the rumour that his death was caused by an internet prank, as his stamp-collecting site was repeatedly flagged as terrorist material by members of the discussion site 4chan.

Because it's a ridiculously sensational article.> ...Swartz and arguing that his college prank aimed at liberating a collection of academic articles with little commercial value was a serious crime.

If you pranked me by pretending that HN has a good track record for dealing with OT submissions, I say "well-played" and redouble my argument in favour of moderating April 1st submissions: Your comment is funnier than most of the so-called prank posts I've seen.

When I was brought into the room I discovered most of the board of the company as well as various senior leadership, and I was grilled about my 'prank' felony for better than a half hour by investment banking types in their upper forties and fifties.

Choose one of the two following explanations for the iPhone behavior: one, a well-funded and resourceful state agency is hiring people to track a journalist writing a book about the biggest intelligence leak in recent history, and the people they're hiring are juvenile enough to use methods straight out of Hollywood to play a prank on their target's iPhone when he sends a text with possibly the most milquetoast insult about their methods in the history of ever; or, two, the iPhone crashed.