14 DAY TRIAL // Gordon Brewer, who is a respected presenter working for BBC, seems to have a dispute with hackers as his profile on the official website has been attacked and changed to make fun of him.
The website is not clearly altered and only after reading the content of the page you can realize that something's fishy.
“Gordon began his journalistic career on The Shetland Times after any hopes of a more technical pursuit were cruelly exposed by a short period working for the oil industry at Sullom Voe. He still keeps a nervous eye on the main flare stack, where he was supposedly monitoring the paint thickness.”
After reading the first two phrases it becomes obvious that a man of his stature hasn't started his career by “monitoring paint thickness.”
Other comments like “He joined the BBC in 1988 as business correspondent for network television news. After six months or so he was asked to move to a new bureau in Tokyo,” make his profile seem more interesting than ever.
The prankster wants to highlight Brewer's knowledge of foreign languages by stating “Despite strenuous attempts to learn Japanese, the nearest he got to fluency was with cab drivers after an evening in the bar.”
It would seem that the presenter finds this attack as being extremely funny as, at the time of this post, the official profile still remains altered for everyone's delight.
“Gordon has a degree in Philosophy and English Literature and wasted taxpayers money for three years studying for a PhD in Philosophy which he has never finished. During his career he has picked up an award for journalism and three nominations for Royal Television Society awards, although with his usual sodding luck he didn't win any of them,” said the last statement on the life of Gordon Brewer [via].