3.01.11 - 2:00PM
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Cole Stryker

Stephen Colbert Confirms Mask Hack Came From Anonymous

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colbert anonymous mask Last week a mysterious Guy Fawkes mask appeared over Stephen Colbert's face for a split second. We weren't sure if it was a hack or a winking acknowledgement of Colbert's solidarity with the hacker collective.

Last night Colbert confirmed that the strange, almost subliminal message was not an inside job, and explained a bit about Anonymous's recent threats toward the Koch Brothers, the billionaires that are allegedly funding the Tea Party movement.

Edit: A commenter points out the implausibility of an outside hack and claims that it's probably still a nod to Anonymous staged by Colbert. Given that his whole persona is a joke, I guess that we can't take him at his word. We'll update with any new information.

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4.09.11

By Motorsheep

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Are you kidding me with this? Colbert may have claimed that he was "hacked by Anonymous", but he 'confirmed' no such thing. Anyone with ANY knowledge of computers or broadcast television knows that this a Colbert gag... if anyone in Anonymous *actually* had the sci-fi tech it would take to transmit an image (at the perfect place and time, no less) onto someone elses cable show you can bet they would have done something far more obvious and subversive than just throw a brown-n-stache over our Mister Stephen.

Colbert is *known* for these types of meta-gags, and frankly if his show was 'hacked' it would have been Comedy Central, not Colbert himself, who would have confirmed it. Embarrassingly, even outlets like CBS are buying into the "Hacker Kiddies Deface TV Show" storyline despite it being both an obvious gag as well as technologically implausible. I suppose its a better story that way, but its pretty sad journalism...