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Hacker Decries U.S. & Israel On Vietnam Memorial Website
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:03:36 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via The Washington Post. [snip] A computer hacker promoting Turkish nationalism posted a video and message on a U.S. Vietnam memorial Web site in recent days, blocking one of the site's search functions while defacing the site with a statement against the United States and Israel. Users of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial site -- at http://www.thewall-usa.com-- who searched for U.S. casualties by date were sent to an all-red Web page adorned with a symbol from the Turkish flag, a short video, and messages in Turkish and English. The English messages attacked Kurds, the United States, Israel and Armenia. According to translations, the Turkish message read: "Is there any equal or likeness to our martyrs at Gallipoli?" It is an apparent reference to the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915 during World War I, during which soldiers from the Ottoman Empire repelled an Allied operation to capture Istanbul, suffering heavy casualties of more than 250,000. The video called it a "story written in blood." A "Turk Defacer" took credit for the hack, which users reported yesterday to the FBI, the National Park Service and the 4/9 Infantry Manchu Vietnam Association, which maintains the site. The message was removed and the search function restored by last night. [snip] More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR200709190 2172.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG8eMDq1pz9mNUZTMRArKyAKD0MVmn+70B3TK7oORPUAXq7bG1WQCgkJDf NzJ7m39UaU8LoPXd5m2R650= =GxbI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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