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Cyberwar on NASA Websites
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CmdrTaco
on Sun Jul 30, 2006 10:18 AM
from the politics-and-cybercrime dept.
from the politics-and-cybercrime dept.
Vexorian writes "Two NASA websites were hacked today by a group of Chilean activist hackers. The reason was to protest against the war on Lebanon. The mirror of the defaced site contains an image of an injured child and claims that the sites were running MacOSX."
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I, for one... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I, for one... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://acoster.net/)
Although some say that only active protesting works, I'm sure they didn't mean to sit on your chair and "h4x0r" some sites. Actually it's pretty sad to see one defacing websites in name of "peace and justice". It also concerns when someone say thats hacktivism, as it can create a bad impression about legit hacktivism activities (such as providing privacy for people in China, etc.).
And now... (Score:4, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Wednesday November 07, @10:09AM)
On the one hand, this is news; NASA is a big target. On the other hand, why are we posting a link to the defacement? We don't need to see it -- just report the story.
Look, I seriously doubt you're going to find that many people who think the war in Lebanon is a good thing, besides anyone with a vendetta against the Lebanese or the people selling bombs and rockets. You want to protest the war, fine -- but don't exepct me to care what you have to say when you can't make your voice heard in a public and legal forum. Defacing a website, any web site, is not the way to make me feel sympathy for your point of view.
Re:And now... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.no2id.co.uk/)
We don't particularly need not to see it. So, why not?
Re:And now... (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.samkass.com/blog | Last Journal: Thursday May 12 2005, @02:40PM)
And Israel has done the same to Lebanon. Remember, Hezbollah only EXISTS because of Israel's invasion of Lebanon decades ago. They reap what they sow.
Re:And now... (Score:5, Informative)
(http://www.gemstate.net/friends | Last Journal: Tuesday September 11, @10:32AM)
Let's all be honest. Blame Italy. It is all their fault.
If ROME had not invaded Israel and destroyed the temple none of this would have happened.
Damn Italians.
Anybody that thinks that they state who is to blame and who is right and who is wrong in just a few sentances doesn't know what they are talking about. I sure can't say who is right and who is wrong. I lean towards Israel in this case just on motivation. Israel wants to stop attacks on people in Israel. Hezbollah wants to kill as many people in Israel as they can. Even that is just a guess. Like I said I don't know who is too blame. I only know who is suffering.
Why is this news? (Score:5, Insightful)
more proof of a foriegn policy failure (Score:1, Insightful)
what with the shooting of Jews in chicago yesterday and now the Lebanon debacle that the US refuses to condemm even though 24 lebanese children died in a bombing in Quana this disaster of an administration have sown seeds of hate that will come back to haunt the US for years to come
staggering that in such a short time the US has gone from loved to hated , the conclusion is Bush and his cronies have put the US populace in a lot more danger than they where 5 years ago, and it is the populace that will suffer the consequences while the administrations operatives relax on their ranches in absolute luxury laughing
Re:more proof of a foriegn policy failure (Score:4, Interesting)
So, in this context, it is true that the US has gone from loved to hated in the span of 17 days. Everything that has happened since the beginning of the war has strengthened the radical elements of the Lebanese government (like it or not, Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese gov't and represents 45% of the population). Every civilian killed was proof that everything that the radicals have been saying about the "Zionists" and the "Imperialist American Dogs" was true.
Re:more proof of a foriegn policy failure (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.kabewm.com/)
Actually there was one Muslim country that had a candle light vigil for the US after the bombings of 9/11.
http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/response.htm [colgate.edu]
Funny that our so called allies (Saudi's, Kuwaiti's, etc) didn't give a rats ass what happened to us.
Re:more proof of a foriegn policy failure (Score:5, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Monday March 31 2003, @01:23AM)
Look, the fact that a bunch of people in the middle east go around burning American flags should not suprise you. What should be worrying is the fact that one of your closest allies now thinks you guys are power-mad and dangerous. I don't think either Japan or the UK will help you in your next war.
You seem to think that one either loves the U.S. unconditionally, or you hate it absolutely like those guys celebrating 9/11, and that there is no changing of opinions. The fact is, most of the world is not extreme and set in their ways like that, and your actions do have an effect on how they percieve you. Your administration has been pushing people away from liking you, so you might want to reconsider your actions.
more proof of a troll's idiocy (Score:5, Insightful)
what with the shooting of Jews in chicago yesterday
Do you actually read the news, or just go with what you're told? The shooting was in Seattle - a very different place from Chicago. And Jews have been at the bottom of some people's "favorite peoples" list for centuries - I doubt our foreign policy could really ever change that in just a few years.
The world is not nearly as petty a place as some would like to think it is. Bush hasn't helped, sure, but anti-US sentiment has been building for years. We rule the world, but spend outlandish amounts on shopping trips and vacations to countries whose people can barely afford basic food and shelter. Then, when something happens to our own, we can't take care of them either.
We'd be a whole lot better off is more Americans would stop using Bush as a scapegoat (again, he might be a good one, but that's not the point) and started changing the way they actually lived - cut back on energy consumption, buy a hybrid or use public transit, demand true equality in civil services and protection in poor neighborhoods/regions, and quit mouthing off on the Internet complaining about your government when the House has something ridiculous like a 98% re-election rate.
We don't take responsibility for our own actions - and when something goes right, take responsibility whether it was our doing or not. That's why people hate us.
OS X hacked or the Web Application (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:OS X hacked or the Web Application (Score:5, Informative)
According to TFA it was an SQL Injection attack.
As much as OSX on a server is a contradiction of terms at the best of times, this wasn't an OS level exploit.
Re:OS X hacked or the Web Application (Score:4, Informative)
(http://www.justjournal.com/)
Yes, I did OS X administration for almost a year.
Re:OS X hacked or the Web Application (Score:4, Informative)
(Last Journal: Saturday November 10, @03:30PM)
NASA (Score:5, Funny)
(http://62.254.139.162/)
I don't get it.. (Score:3, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Tuesday November 06, @02:39PM)
since when did NASA of all government agencies have to do with a war in lebanon.
It seems to me like theyre doing the cyber equivalent to nasa that isrealis are doing to lebanese civillian centers.
stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid....
Chicago, this ain't. (Score:5, Insightful)
just shelled their places of business and damn the consequences...
Again, a non-workable analogy. The people smuggling whiskey and evading taxes in the 30's weren't launching missles from Chicago into Toledo, or proclaiming that only the destruction of Illinois is acceptable to them. They didn't randomly kill women and children, year after year, just to stoke things up (they just killed each other in a turf war over the smuggling market and related "industries").
The mafia wasn't a militant front for an oil-rich retrograde fascist theocracy that was shipping them millions of bucks and thousands of missiles.
It doesnt make sense to use millitary weaponry when surgical strikes on the ground would get things done.
If the Israelis stopped using precision weapons, you'd see the civilian deaths in the areas where Hezbollah keeps parking their weapons and launchers go from a few hundred to thousands and thousands over night. You do understand that you can't just march Israeli troops back into all of Lebanon and surgically remove Hezbollah weapons and infrastructure from the middle of the civilian presence in which they hide without an enormous invasion, right? It takes a gigantic supply chain, tons of armour, and thousands of soldiers - and it would take months and months, and many more Israeli deaths, which is exactly what Hezbollah would like to force them to have to do.
Hezbollah has had an uninterrupted six years to build bunkers, to booby-trap and mine their weapons storage sites, and to make sure that their personnel are woven completely into the fabric of the civilian population of Lebanon. Israel is being smart, and taking out the tools Hezbollah will need to re-supply themselves with weapons. Eventually they will run out, or Iran will have to more clearly show their hand by visibly pushing new weapons into the area by air - and they don't want to have that light shown on them just now. In the meantime, when Hezbollah pops out of a basement with a missle launcher, Israel hits that spot immediately, to destroy the cache that's there. They have no choice, other than to just tolerate more missles raining down on Haifa and beyond.
Way to go ... (Score:1)
Stupid activists (not a flame here.) (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://booktextmark.mozdev.org/)
If anything, these protestors should thank Israel for taking action now and preventing more carnage later. One cannot constantly procrastinate in this kind of a situation, because it is only getting worse.
Oh yes, and how about protesting where it actually makes sense: at Hizballah, at Lebanese, Iranian and Syrian governments. Protesting against regimes that allow terrorists to do what they do: use civilians AND UN folks as living shields on the battlefield. Not only are civilians used as shields, they are a great propaganda tool. When a terrorist launches a rocket at civilian targets in Israel from a busy market place in Lebanon, and Israeli army answers with fire at that place, is it the responsibility of Israel to make sure that Lebanese civilians do not suffer or is it responsibility of those, who used the civilians for their political gain around the world?
Here are a couple [apazhe.net] of caricatures [solomonia.com] that do tell something about the reality of this war.
Re:Stupid activists (not a flame here.) (Score:4, Insightful)
BBC: You know you are killing innocent people?
IDF General: We are currently targetting Hizballah areas where they store rockets and fire into Israel. We told all civilians to leave many times.
BBC: Yeah but why kill innocent people?
IDF General: Why are innocent people next to Hizballah rocket installations?
BBC: But.. you can't..
IDF General: This is the fundamental difference between Israelis and Lebonense. Israelis are currently sleeping in bomb shelters. Lebonese are sleeping with bombs.
BBC: *Silence*