It's not OK for them to be equating gay with bad casually, even if that's not their thought process. Just like it's not OK to say that somethings totally Christian (And thus bad) or totally Black (And thus bad) or totally republican (And thus bad). The attacks were likely to have been made possible by a technique known as "spear phishing," in which an individual is fooled into clicking on a malicious Web link or running a program that allows open access to the recipient's network. It is also possible that the attack was less specific, a case in which an intruder was testing the system merely to see what was available..