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Saddam's Inbox Hacked
MotorMachineMercenar writes "Wired News is reporting that Saddam Hussein's email account
(press@uruklink.net)
has been hacked into. The account had a five-letter login with the same password. Messages in his inbox sent from all over the world included everything from death threats to business propositions to offers to sell him WMDs. A choice quote from the article: 'One AOL user sent Saddam a one-word message: 'Imminent.' Attached to the Aug. 6 e-mail was a photograph of an atomic mushroom cloud.' I wonder what the login was."
You'd think it was "press," password "press," but if it were that obvious I think someone would have said so.
you really think he personally reads that account? asshole probably can't even use a computer at all without wanting to shoot or gas it.
Mr. Jambunju of Nigeria needs his help getting his family's money out of the country, and if Saddam helps, he will get half of it.
Plus, thanks to the miracle of herbal viagra, he'll soon be able to sustain an erection all night, and please many women in bed!
How could this be real? He's the most hated man in America, several years running. For that to happen... I can't beleive it. It's just a little "out there."
Do we need say anything more?
hmmm Saddam wasn't using AOL? he may be more dangerous than we thought.
I can't help but think this is bogus. What exactly is _Saddam_'s Inbox? Does _he_ read that mail, or do his subordinates? Anyway...interesting, no matter if it's true or not.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Hack inbox for great justice
Seriously, when are people going to learn that short usernames with the username as the password are a bad idea? Maybe the US should bomb everybody whose email is stupidly secured like that?
Don't you think his password wouldn't be in ENGLISH?
--JonnyBlog
WMD = Weapon of Mass Destruction. Not obvious, IMHO.
Hmm...this would make for a good fark contest: Make a email that might be in Saddam's inbox.
To: Madmn@aol.com
From: GWBush@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Hahahahaha
Prepare your Camels, 'cause we're about to get medeviel on your scud-launching ass. And if you use Bio weapons, you won't stop glowing for a LONG time. And don't think you can bankrupt us. We use weapons on you, we order more, our side gets more jobs. So let us in, or we'll come down on you like the hand of god.
Party on,
GWB
Yes, but did he get any business propositions from Nigeria.
That's what I want to know.
My
Limekiller
The thing that the world can't seem to get through it's thich ignorant skull is that, contrary to popular belief, President Bush IS NOT itching at the trigger to go in, in fact the administration has made it abundantly clear that not only is military action a last result, the prime goal is to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, not to simply go in and blow things up for fun. My heart goes out to the Iraqi people for the near-genocide they endure on a daily basis.
Agree or disagree politically with my views, don't mod me down for a difference of opinion.
...cause that woyuld apply to half the western world as well..
CptnH.
Perhaps if they changed the option to "Repeat" or "Already seen it" then it'd work better?
What if he were unix-proficient?
"Orders, my Oily Commander?"
"Yes, kill -9 -1 those yankees."
We should feed our American troops copious amounts of WhoopAss. Thinkgeek will make a fortune!
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Did I mention Cats is his press Secretary?
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This is +5?
Shee-sus! I knew Slashdotters were apolitical beforehand, but come on... really...
King of the Druids: "One... Two... Three... Four... Five."
Dark Helmet: "That sounds like the combination an idiot would have on his luggage!"
<snip>
President Scrooge: "One two three four five? I can't believe it! I have the same combination on my luggage!"
IBM had PL/1, with syntax worse than JOSS,
And everywhere the language went, it was a total loss...
http://mail.uruklink.net:8383/ (google cache) looks like they are using iMail, which is a POP3 server. Thus, if mail in there is still there, it is not read, because then it would be gone.
Whether or not Saddam or his regime read it isn't really the point. The interesting thing is what people sent, and why. It's also a unique privacy issue; these people who thought they could quietly support Iraq are exposed in such a way that they can't really claim to have been violated.
Promote civility: mod down any post starting with 'ummm'.
in 2001 Saddam Hussein wrote a letter to an american.t ter.htm :D
http://www.uruklink.net/iraq/e2001/ele
Just to nitpick:
"Your successive administrations have killed one billion and a half Iraqis in eleven years."
WOW, no wonder they have problems with all those people living underground
Or was it only that I thought it should be?
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
I'd like to see a raw mails - not Wired's summary.
Anyone have a link?
(n/t).. or should it be spelled XP nowadays?...
from article:
,102
;)
The version of webmail software used by the Iraqi ISP is known to have several security holes -- but the patches available for them do not appear to have been applied.
from uruklink.net website:
October28
like Y2K?
Contrary to popular american beliefs, Europe is NOT pro-Iraq, we're just not as keen on resorting to force nowadays since we saw the result of it at home.
The US hasn't in modern times seen widespread destruction on home turf, we still remember it vividly.
Hmm, let's see here:
1) Pearl Harbor
2) WTC
I think those qualify as "modern times," "widespread destruction" and "home turf."
The article is unclear about who exactly broke into the system. Anybody know more?
Also, could this not be a case of security being intentionally lax in one area to serve as a distraction, if not to more or less astute intelligence agencies then to the public and press, which skip the real intelligence to focus on emails to who-knows-who in the Iraqi government from who-knows-who anywhere else.
Online citizen journalism from the inner city: The View From The Ground
Saddam's personal homepage is right now being subjected to what appears to be a large scale DDOS attack. After Saddam has butchered his sysadmin and the hackers, he's coming for you Jamie...
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
Gee, thanks Bill.
Did Brian McWilliams, author of the article, do the actual hacking? Or was he just informed of it by some skript kiddie? The article is mysteriously vague about who did the deed.
Assuming they did do the hacking, this is ethical... how? Does this mean they figure it's all right to hack into anyone's e-mail and publicize the results? What if it were your e-mail?
It may have been a nifty trick that someone happened to guess the right password, but as journalism, this is beyond the pale. I'd like to see someone from WIRED News comment a little more specifically on who the hacker was, why his or her name wasn't disclosed, and how WIRED justifies reporting on the hacked contents of an e-mail account, and where they draw the lines.
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
Some of these commercial offers might even be considered high treason.
I hope that all U.S. corporate leaders involved are immediately arrested and charged with treason or some other appropriate offense. This is wrong on so many levels it churns my stomach. The arrogance of these people astound me to no end.
I sincerely hope this is a hoax but somehow I can see that it's possible.
If there is truth to U.S. business attempting to solicit business with Saddam Hussein, then I expect to see reports of arrests and investigations in the news. But I can already hear the paper shreading machines in operations and the degausing machines humming...
... password and login are the same... hence Saddam Insein!
I'm confused. Is Saddam breeding orcs now?
Just in case that is actually modded up and someone finds it funny, I didn't come up with it myself. I read it in a Plastic discussion a while ago. I can't remember which, however, and I can't remember who said it, so I guess this isn't much help tracing down the original source. I just didn't want credit for such a brilliant acronym unless I came up with it myself.
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
Did anyone else think of the Uruk-Hai, Tolkien's great soldier-Orcs? Hmm...
Bush Lies Watch
It looks like uruklink.net is still vulnerable:
-port 110 is opened
-it reveals they're running Ipswitch IMail 7.07
-this software has a known overflow and exploit on the web client side
-http://mail.uruklink.net:8383/ is opened.
What are their sysadmin waiting to shut down 110/8383? Wake up!
Side note, it's funny to see that they are running an american OS and mail software..
have you been defaced today?
Curious to see which pr0n passwords could be squandered from his inbox.
Dear sadam33. Contratulations! You won my ebay auction for a genuine nuclear missile including certificate of authenticity. Item #343223. Send your money order and your address and I'll ship it out to you pronto. You asked about my feedback - it's true that I have no feedback yet, but this is simply because I had to make a new account: last week I tried to auction off my copy of Microsoft Office XP and ebay killed it and my account.
Ollie
--- What?
Now they will know what happens when they send spam to the wrong mailbox.
I send you this bomb in order to have your opinion.
I bet his luggage combination is 1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5.
'When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.' -HST
Oops.
:)
All your emails are belong to us
It'd be even better if the password was changed.
IF It was talk about major blackmail.
... Slashdot nerds from around the world Slashdot the sole Iraqi internet ISP off the face of the earth by visiting Saddam Hussein's homepage so many times!
Why would a Saudi Arabian oil employee use broken english when there is a 100% chance he speaks arabic? If he's not speaking English well, then what is he speaking in an Arab country? Chinese?
Maybe I'm out to lunch, but I think arabic speaking people send each other emails in arabic.
This Wired article stinks of something...
khl
At the bottom of the homepage of the Iraqi national ISP there is the familiar message:
"This site is best viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer at 800x600."
Damn, even despotic Middle Eastern regimes use Internet Explorer!
perhaps Saddam could aquire the technology to keep his servers from succumbing to the slashdot effect.
from the article:
:)
"Saddam's inbox also contained several solicitations from American companies hoping to do business with Iraq -- despite U.S. prohibitions and United Nations trade sanctions."
now I really hope that spam companies will send spam mail to accounts in 'forbidden' countries, thus marking themselves as illegal. It would be fun
-- There are two kind of sysadmins: Paranoids and Losers. (adapted from D. Bach)
[laptop][reimannj][~]$ whois uruklink.net
[Owner of domain name]
osama khalid
27 april street
baghdad, 0000
IQ
Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
Phone: +964 1 5372494
Fax: +964 1 5434731
[laptop][reimannj][~]$ host uruklink.net
[laptop][reimannj][~]$ traceroute uruklink.net
traceroute: unknown host uruklink.net
Anyone else noticing anything weird about this?
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
To play Devil's advocate, from a journalistic point of view, Wired's primary responsibility is to validate the source of the info. Once that is done, you can make a very good case that this is, at least potentially, the sort of thing that People Must Know, which overrides most other considerations.
The contents were probably awfully mundane, perhaps too much so to qualify for The People Must Know, but one could imagine at least in theory that they might have found something interesting in there.
There is precedent for this: For a big example, consider the Watergate scandal. The New York Times wasn't "supposed" to be in possession of that material, and they certainly weren't "supposed" to publish it, but The People Must Know overrode their reservations, and most of us would consider that the right decision based on the info they had at the time.
On the other hand, hacking into my email and telling the world about it would be unethical; there is no need for anybody to know what's in there, so they'd just be rumormongering.
What, you say this "The People Need To Know" is an awfully fuzzy criterion to be using? Damn straight! These ethical things are hard.
(Remember, I'm playing devil's advocate here; I don't believe it's black and white, but I do think there is a strong kernel of truth here.)
heh...
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Bust all spammers for high treason, or at least violating the UN sanctions.
The part I thought most comical was the people writing to warn him that the CIA would be after him and to exercise caution, or with ideas on how to win a war. Yes, I'm sure Saddam fired off a hardcopy of that e-mail, brought it to his War Ministry and they all read it in awe.
"By the grace of Almighty Allah, skater601@aol.com has shown us the road to salvation!"
Jeez, people can be so dumb...
Personally I just think it's a matter of PR Whiz Valerie G. Mallinson's employer having a new client..
Trolling is a art,
...that we have now loosed on Iraq's feeble Internet connection.
Stalingrad, Hiroshima, Dresden are no comparison. I am from New York, and I can say that a few square blocks is awful, but nothing close to an entire city. I was recently in Italy. We passed through Terni on the way to Spoleto. Almost all of the towns we passed were old Medieval towns. Terni had almost no old buildings. Most looked like they were built in the 50s. Then I read that during WW2 it was reduced to rubble. That is true widespread destruction.
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iraq
wonder what his EULA looks like?
AK
The site www.uruklink.net is running Sun_WebServer/2.0 on Solaris.
You shank my Jengaship!
Just an attempt by the Bush administration to attack the Iraqi regime. Since we can't bomb them yet, they found this and release it to all us geeks for us to hack and slash(.) them.
How about a ghost-written testimonial about a Middle East dictator who switches from Mac to XP? At least the photo could be real this time.
A man who identified himself as a former U.S. paratrooper and Persian Gulf War veteran e-mailed on June 25 that he regretted that "a political solution decision was made before my friends and I had a chance to completely wipe your cartoon character of a leader off the face of this earth."
That is pretty frightening. "I wish we didnt resolve this dispute before we got to waste each other."
Why are military personnel so hell-bent on killing people? Are they trained to be like that, or does it just happen naturally through desensitization, given the violence-oriented environment in which they live?
Why stick up for big business?
That's incredible! I have that same combination on my luggage!
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I did a google search on this line from the wired article.
"as a weapon to ignite large sections of the atmosphere and incinerate all living creatures within its pre-selected coordinates."
And found this refrence:
This article
So is it imminent we get bombed or imminent he gets mushroom clouded? I hate vague people! Better to send something less vague. Perhaps the Ramones insignia. Shield and eagle with eagle holding arrows in one claw,baseball bat in the other and the words "Look Out Below" on a ribbon beneath.
*Repent!Quit Your Job!Slack Off!The World Ends Tomorrow and You May Die!
You probably mean "...countries that have not done anything, except aggressively invade their neighboring countries, refuse to disarm, and use poison gas on their own inhabitants that warrent[sic] an attack."
Attached to the Aug. 6 e-mail was a photograph of an atomic mushroom cloud.' It is probably not a coincidence that Aug 6 was the 1945 date that the nuke was dropped on Hiroshima.
Tor
1.. 2.. 3.. 4.. 5..
Same as the code on G.W. Bush's luggage.
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
Yeah, an unimportant mailbox was insecure, and somebody guessed the pass.
It would be funny, perhaps, if the account had then been used to send out something along the lines of "All your base are belong to us!", but that's about the extent of its utility. It's a small-time hack, just like the ones that generated that famous phrase. Now, if somebody were to hack his systems in such a way as to set detonate one of his sarin bombs while he's present, THAT would be a big deal, though I'd prefer that he be the ONLY one present. I have nothing against his soldiers, and it will make me sad when we kill them. Let's hope they bring us his head to and just surrender. Good country, good people, evil overlord.
of the blitzkrieg, siege of Stalingrad, Dresden, Battle of Britain, etc., Pearl & WTC, terrible as they were, were far outscored on the death and destruction scale by dozens of WWII battles in Europe.
Heck even the Civil War was mostly soldiers killing soldiers in small towns or empty fields, you'd have to go back to Fredericksburg or Atlanta to find the kind of total devastation of entire cities (& most of the cities of a nation) that a European means when saying "widepsread destruction".
Agreed. It wastes a lot of people's time when editors or story authors (in the absense of competent editors) try to show how "with it" they are by not expanding acronyms, especially when they have not recently been used in a slashot headline.
Hitler had quite a formidable military, which was built up from the remains of WWI and assembled against the orders of the Versailles Treaty.
Hussain has no such bad assness.
Your argument is weak, and ridiculous.
His passwors was 5 letters?
Um, just a stab in the dark here, but maybe "NUKES"?
--Forest C. Adcock--
I've tried
username: press
password: press, Press, PRESS, PreSS, pRess, PresS, pRESS, pRESs
username allah
password allah, Allah, ALLAH, allaH, aLLAH
username 12345
password 12345
any then I got tired.
anyone had any luck?
Also in todays news, William Safire of the NYTimes (blah blah) underlined recent beliefs that McDonalds and KFC are a secret operation under the wings of Al'Qaeda by noting the extreme fat asses of its buyers, an all-telling sign of terrorist activities, according to safire. Several international experts in both nutrition, ergonomics and terrorism denied Safire's allegations, but they were in term named as hoaxes and brainwashed commie europerv saladeaters.
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To end on a good note Our God, George w. Bush learned to walk today, as well as announcing that he with a little technical assistance from the senior staff had cracked the secret codes to the sadamn harem. We at Wierd have learned that the password was, in fact, Jorge.
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Yeah right, anyone with any political or corporate status DOES NOT read their own email directly from their inbox --- someone obviously filters through their email as well as snail-mail or they would be deleting mails all day long saying "Hey, you suck!"
Alas, the user/pass is not "press"/"press", nor a mispelled "sadam"/"sadam". Ah, well.
Jouster
subject says it all
The right of keeping your mail private only matters to people in your side of the border, right?
Why do you think someone can hack inboxes of Sadam Husseim, Fidel Castro, or any other 'persona non grata' for the united states when this would cause a lot of trouble if done to american citzens? If a right can't be expanded to a universal law then it's likely to be immoral. It's obvious the upcoming war against Iraq only matters Bush's interests on oil businesses. However, most people in the US disregard the fact that Sadam was actually a direct product of the pathetic US intervention in the Iran x Iraq war in the 80's and keep attacking him as he was the devil himself (as in South Park). The main focus should be on fixing the US international policies, which has shown to be a complete disaster (look at this stupid inbox hacking), and not to fight against ex-allies as Sadam. Until there, the term 'nation of fanatics' fits more to the US than to any other country in the world.
If this is not a hoax, I would think the FBI/CIA/NSA whatever would be all over his internet activities (carnivore) especially if his email address is so commonly known. I would not want to be the hacker that walked into that death trap.
Hrrm... I usually just sign my name.
Like this could be for real...
I need to get my eyes checked. I thought I read "Saddam Hacks Xbox" Guess everybody's taking a shot at those babies.
Kinda wierd to think the most clear and present danger to the free world uses a yahoo address for there administrators.
Registrar:domaininfo.com
Domain Name: URUKLINK.NET
[Owner of domain name]
osama khalid
27 april street
baghdad, 0000
IQ
[Administrative contact]
khalid, osama
27 april street
0000 baghdad
IQ
Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
Phone: +964 1 5372494
Fax: +964 1 5434731
[Technical contact]
khalid, osama
27 april street
0000 baghdad
IQ
Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
Phone: +964 1 5372494
Fax: +964 1 5434731
[Zone contact]
khalid, osama
27 april street
0000 baghdad
IQ
Email: ama_72@yahoo.com
Phone: +964 1 5372494
Fax: +964 1 5434731
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The Arabic language newspaper Al Jezeera is reporting today that uruklink.net suffered a massive distributed denial of service attack today originating from the United States. While originally believed to be the prelude to a new offensive campaign by the United States against Iraq, it was later determined that this attack was the work of a group of renegade, technology-savvy intellectuals from the Slashdot.org website.
A friend of mine was in the Gulf War -- US Army infantry. He said he and all his buds were "encouraged" (i.e., berated by the sargeant until they did it) to sign a waiver and receive an injection of non-FDA-approved anthrax vaccine. I've wondered if this had a possibile relation to Gulf War Syndrome. Any idea?
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Since when is guessing a password considered hacking?
As your what?
While Saddam shuffles from palace to palace, gasses his own people, and forces a 100% election ... this is what his country's children look forward to:
picture
It's time for a change.
Hack his email.
Crush his forces.
Get him out of power.
Do something for the people that couldn't leave if they wanted to...
I just tried hacking into their email server, but ran in to some new protection program...they now have a large, twisted, knotty creature, who appears on your screen and forwards your intrusion attempts away while shouting...
/whois me = Ugluk. I have spoken."
"We are the fighting Uruklink-Hai! We bombed the great satan. We took the hostages. We are the servants of Saddam the Wise, The Gassy Ass: The Ass that gives us American-flesh to eat. We operate out of Baghdad, and forwarded you here, and we shall lead you back by the protocol we choose.
(apologies to JRR)
$8.95/mo web hosting
Seems to me that maybe it isn't a great idea to hack into an email account that is (arguably) owned by a person who really really likes weapons of mass distruction.
?SYNTAX ERROR IN SIG
READY.
I live in England, we've been in a near-constant civil war for years and still are.
What this teaches you is to be tollerent of others, not to kill the fuckers.
Maybe, just maybe there are a lot of countries/people that hate the dictatorship that America is trying to impose on the rest of the world . Should they kill Bush for being evil?
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Their web site is so badly done it's hilarious. None of it seems to make any sense. They go on about some super-technological wireless radio system that even works in a submarine, and also some way these radios can be re-tuned into a long-distance incineration weapon.
Check it out, it's pretty funny.
And great sound effects - sounds like a whale giving birth to a chimp, not sure what it's supposed to be, or why on earth a corporate site would want such strange noises to prelude into a really wacked presentation on their super-vague "4G" lethal boomboxes...
Everyone knows what evil dictators use.
12345.
Bet he has it on his luggage too.
"For weapon use, have function: no color, no smell, will let person dead in a few second,"
...right next to a big advert for "Great Gift Ideas for the Holidays".
I had to smile...
Phil, just me
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The worst Republican, on his worst, conspiracy-laden, evil, money-grubbing day is better than Saddam Hussein on his best, most charitable, not-killing-people day.
;)
I take it your a Democrat?
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If there are any non-american-fanatics in the moderation poll
Any has $0.02 to say otherwise? :)
And don't forget ran_999@yahoo.com for WARkaa.com What are the odds of that? URUKlink is apparently hosted by WARkaa.
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Fax: 971 4 2224482
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Use Gas, what like waco
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
Agreed. It wastes a lot of people's time when editors or story authors (in the absense of competent editors) try to show how "with it" they are by not expanding acronyms, especially when they have not recently been used in a slashot headline.
You could not possibly be serious. If you have read any single issue of any newspaper during the last year you must have seen that acronym. And the latter part of your comment is just hilarious. It hasn't featured in a Slashdot headline, so you couldn't know about it? Want them to clarify who Saddam is too? He doesn't frequent Slashdot headlines all to often either.
Sorry for flamebating/trolling/whatever, but really, try to get out of your cubicle just a little more often, willya?
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Wouldn't it be so nice to close down spammers because they're breaching UN trade sanctions? Maybe you could even get them charged with treason.. Muahahaha
I found their "technical" documentation - it was a wildly entertaining read, the ultimate in nonsense techno-babble. What in the hell is a "tetra-gigahertz"?
:)
Great phrases like:
"Mathematical expressions have been eliminated to allow the reader to interpret the words and draw pictures in his mind to see what I, and so many others in the past have discovered but were afraid to write about or do until now."
"The frequency dependence of attenuation in the earth ionosphere wave-guide channel is known but will not be disclosed in this paper."
"If after reviewing all the this data including the above written data, if the reader still does not have a clear understanding then it is clear that the reader does not have the ability to think outside the circle (remember, my condition at the outset?)"
Definitions of acronyms like ATM and CDMA at the end, although none of those terms are discussed in the document.
Read it, laugh your head off!
Of course, an atomic mushroom cloud would only affect Saddam Hussein. Can we expect to hear the phrase 'surgical nuke' used in the future?
I've been trying to get ahold of him for weeks now.
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The us did not give Iraq $8 billion and we were not their weapons supplier. Their weapons came from France and the USSR. We did give them some intelligence during the Iran Iraq war.
That guys' name was 'Junis' not 'Junti'.
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anyone tried "guest"/"guest"?
Saddam Hussein is a bloodthirsty, hitler-esque megalomaniac. He butchers his own people. So far as I'm concerned, this places him beyond the pale of the protections civilized people afford each other. If someone shot Saddam tomorrow, it wouldn't trouble me at all - heck, if Ari Fleischer threw a party I'd probably go. As was said of Eichman - and I know I'm butchering this quote - "He didn't want to share the world with Jews, so we should not be expected to share the world with him".
If we accept (and I wholeheartedly do) that killing Saddam would be at worst a not-bad thing and more likely a Good Thing, then hacking his mail pales in comparison. Anything that serves to humiliate or demean Saddam or those who would work with him is fine by me. Any "leader" as monstrous as Saddam deserves no rights whatsoever so far as I am concerned.
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Doing bad things with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons before we knew the dire consequences of using them is one thing. But it is another thing to use such weapons on civilians when you know exactly what the effects will be.
So you're saying it's somehow more morally acceptable to experiment on unwitting people who have done nothing to you then it is use tested and proven poisons on people who are in the middle of an uprising? It's not like Saddam was out gassing people for fun, "His own people" were trying to overthrow him.
We used biological, chemical, and radiological substances we thought would hurt people on innocent people to make sure it worked. Saddam used weapons on people trying to overthrow him. One of them is worse then the other, and it isn't Saddam
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Uh...high treason is a serious, serious charge. A death penalty charge, in some cases. I should hope the gov't would require more corroboration than an email (when we all know spammers are perfectly capable of forging addresses and headers) before sending someone to jail. Admittedly, those executives who admitted in the article that some sort of "joke" had been played, or that they had been misquoted but had sent emails, should at least be investigated. But no charges. Not based on something like this.
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If you have read any single issue of any newspaper during the last year you must have seen that acronym
Some of us have not read a newspaper in the past year and for some of us Slashdot is our major news source. I don't think it's an unreasonable request to expand lesser known acronyms.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
The Israeli tech sector is really booming, and they turn out a lot of good stuff. If the Iraqi site were using Israeli software, that would be hilarious.
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really though, i'm surprised he doesnt give out his public key so people can encrypt the messages they send to him. this would at least create a pain in the ass for the cia.
-- john
One sad possibility of this hacking is that a certain amount of national (or regime) shame may have come as a result of this hack being publicized so widely. This really is an embarassing blunder. So if we are to believe that Saddam is a ruler who beats/imprisons/executes his own people when he is unsatisfied with their devotion, some IT people in Iraq may very well be betting beaten or imprisoned or worse because of this.
...
In a free world, exposing hacks results in incompetent people being retrained or fired and the problem gets fixed. In an unfree regime, well,
For what?
To save the lives of soldiers?
Nuking hospitals & kindergartens?
If thats not a crime against humanity *nothing* is.
Its a paradigm example of a crime against humanity.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
- some history for you.
- the US govt imprisons more of its own citizens per capita than any other country in the world, and the number of children in us prisons is on the rise. Many of these prisons would rate as "horrific", especially for kids.
- There are many documented instances of the US gassing their own people. here's just one and didn't the russians just gas their own people too? and for the record those kurds supposedly gassed by Iraq were actually gassed by Iran with US and british supplied weapons.
- actually the US does execute miltary officers by the hundreds. in fact the US executed thousands of retreating iraqi soldiers in 1991. Not onlty that but the US is guilty of political assasination, car bombing, torture, and general mayhem associated with their ongoing war of terror. I mean Nixon and Kissinger and Rumsfeld actually extended the vietnam war (95% civillian casualties) by years just to get Nixon elected.
- and finally to say the US doesn't repress free speech is too much of a joke. even google is staffed by NSA spooks. self censorship is at an all time high - wake up and smell what your are shovelling. If the press in the US were really free you'd probably know a bit more about your own evil soaked government and their clients.
george w bush and his oil coup cronies are far more evil than saddam could ever hope to be.- Demand regime change in the USA now.
I used to have a better sig than this, but I got tired of it
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There have been many scientific and medical papers on this suposed syndrome. Basically the list of complaints that people suffered from were far to numerous and of different types to be produced from any substance or biologic. I've worked with a few people who have researched it, and one MD who was over there , who said that USUALLYmost of the complaints are general whole body pain, aches, etc usualy attributable to unhappy people (e.g somatatization: non specific body pains attributable to general unhappiness, usually from people who are unhappy with their predicament in life and wish to avoid it - kinda like the school kid who "feels" sick when they don't want to go to school)
..........FULL STOP.
What makes you think he is any less rational in his decisionmaking than your beloved mr Bush?
Like all those democratically elected governments we overthrew and replaced with murderous military regimes. Guatemala anyone?
But they weren't our own citizens so I guess they don't count.
Jeez, dude, there's nobody here but you and me who know who Ollie is. These guys are mostly clueless. It would be better signed, "Doctor Evil".
By the way, FUNNY.
Bitterman
for maximum humorous effect.
Large print giveth, and the small print taketh away
If I were the one that hacked his inbox, I think I would have sent emails to all of his followers telling them to kill themselves.. or maybe I just would have taunted the rest of the world with email riddles and chain letters.
Sweet! Now we can email [plant] "evidence" to people to prove that they are guilty.
This is so much easier than going on TV to call them bad names. "Axis of Evil".
Man, if they receive bad emails they must be bad.
This just in... We've just received word that email evidence proves that the president is having an affair with a barely 18 year old girl named Tiffany.
vs. Microsoft's Weapons of Mass Annoyance?
No, this is what we should do:
# tar -zcvf email_bomb.tgz windowsXP.iso
# elm -s "You've got bombed!" press@uruklink.net
repeat step 2 as many times as you can before your ISP shuts you down
HallmarkOrnaments.Com
...if the credentials for the account were login: 'islam' password: 'islam' ...
Police shootings are somehow connected to civil war...
Do not comment on police matters if you don't have any experience with the matter. That's what your original point was.
Now you are just commenting on all injuries/fatalies in America. Yes Europeans have less paper cuts per year than Americans, this meanas... uh wait I know this one... x equals infinity!
Yeah, I agree: Saddam is a pain in the arse. But is it still ethically correct to publish information about someone's inbox's contents? I think not. I thought that the majority of Slashdot users were pretty concerned about privacy. If it's OK to read Saddam's mail, is it OK for them to read your mail?
Some of us have not read a newspaper in the past year and for some of us Slashdot is our major news source.
If true, that is *really* sad.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
SunOS 5.6
/export/home3/iraq/saddam
/export/home3/iraq/saddam/games
r : Command not found
r : Command not found
r : Command not found
login: joshua
password: joshua
Last login: Mon Dec 25 2000 00:29:33
You are logged onto sandbox.uruklink.net.
Unauthorized access to this system will result in shooting, stoning, or hanging.
Mon Oct 28 16:36:42 EST 2002
sandbox% ls
mail public_html games
sandbox% cd games
sandbox% global_thermonuclear_war
global_thermonuclear_wa
sandbox% global_thermonuclear_war
global_thermonuclear_wa
sandbox% global_thermonuclear_war
global_thermonuclear_wa
sandbox% @#$*&(@^#
@#$*&(@^#: Command not found
sandbox% exit
Connection to host lost.
Does the Trading With the Enemy Act still apply? That could be used on them - you know, like it was against Dubya's grandpa Prescott in 1942 to stop him from helping fund the Nazis.
(And the axe of Godwin falls upon the thread...)
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
"Please consider this letter as secret ... I ensure you absolute secrecy," the e-mail stated.
"Four"
"Oh, all right... The combination is:
One"
"One"
"Two"
"Two"
"Three"
"Three"
"Four"
"Five"
"Five"
"One two three four five... that sounds like the combination some idiot would use on his luggage!"
*later*
"Amazing! That's the same combination I use on my luggage!"
All hail President Screw...
I guess the absolute secrecy part has a clause that a certain individual selects a good password.
There's a 68.71% chance you're right.
Now that we have his email address, (I half doubt that this is it but if it is) we can go around signing him up for all those "nice offers" (spam) just enter that if a site says you need to give them your e-mail address.
FYI, I adopted Junis and keep him as my pet to change the channel and answer the door.
And suffer this righteous slashdotting. What a weapon of mas destruction we wield.
Damn, what is the net coming to when I can't even login to saddams email.
BTW, chem & bio can not be weapons of mass destruction, mass is conserved in both, only nuke is mass destruction.
Maybe you live in interesting times
Of course, you know the picture of the bomb represents his mail server after being slashdotted :-)
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
I first read this as, "Saddam's X-Box Hacked", and I can't stop laughing.
I'm all for voting off-topic comments down (which the post complaining of the U.S. Presidential election OBVIOUSLY should have been), but of course when you precious liberal whiners get the hint of opposition you mod him down.
Sounds fair to me...
I hope I get to meta-moderate you losers.
Now we have a link to Saddom's e-mail on the front page of slashdot.... His server is crashing and dying.... I wonder if the only ones able to read his e-mail are the hackers.... I wonder what he has in his e-mail now....
My UID is prime and so is this number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Then we could find out who is the most stupid.
Wanna try?
telnet 62.32.60.16 110
+OK X1 NT-POP3 Server mail.uruklink.net (IMail 7.07 61832-17)
user jihad
+OK send your password
pass jihad
-ERR Invalid userid/password
Try your own combinanations for fun!
like...
:)
Maybe he can get a U N I V E R S I T Y D I P L O M A for his life experience
What an astounding bit of moral equivalency.
Let's see, Saddam is a brutal dictator who gasses innocents in the name of political terror and genocide, the US is a democracy defending itself and freedom by selectively attacking only those who attacked it first, and in the process bringing freedom to millions.
Yeah, no difference whatsoever. Fucking asshole.
1.) by your own acknowledgement the government is recognizing that claims to GWS may exist and beginning to act upon them. Give me examples of Dictatorships that act this way.
2.) This makes little sense. I suggest that in your use of the thesaurus/dictionary you look up the defintion of war.
3.) This is just very funny why don't you even bother to check your sources. The article you link is funded by Greenpeace, you really don't think they would have a bias? Why not read both sides and make a decision because its rather obvious that answers usually lie between two extremes in this case your argument and the previous writers.
Your last point is valid about Native Americans but I would like you to point out who argued against this. As well many of the atrocities that occured to these groups were done before the founding of the United States.
The sooner we think for ourselfs, and question the motives behind every source of information, the sooner we will become better people. Much better imho.
I consider myself pretty good with computer security. I even have a honeypot installed on my computer. To lure the crackers in, you must make it very easy to get into the honeypot. This all seems too easy...
I don't think its a good idea for anybody to be jumping to conclusions about what his e-mail gets. That webmail account may have been created for the purpose of luring in crackers working for the US government. They may just forward all the junk and non-secret mail there.
You mean president@whitehouse.com is not Bush's email address? From the replies I got I thought we finally had a president I could relate with. He had nothing but optimism for the economy and seemed supportive of personal rights. Although I never understood why the President needed my credit card number...
If you go to the Iraq homepage and view source, it that the generator was Frontpage 5.0
Damn dude, he gassed "His own people" not "his own innocent people". They were in the process of trying to overthrow him.
Not that he's a nice guy or anything. But attacking people after your head is hardly the zenith of immorality.
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"The account had a five-letter login"
You'd think someone who has held on to power with a white-knuckled grip for so long would have the foresight to use a slightly longer password...
As what happened in Europe. Were talking about the destruction of entire cities, the loss of tens of millions of people, both civilian and soldier.
It doesn't help that those two incidents are the only incidents in the past hundred years or so.
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Hmm ... 5 letters, easy to remember ... hmmmm ...
:-)
Got it! "sadam".
except aggressively invade their neighboring countries, refuse to disarm, and use poison gas on their own inhabitants
Did you forget that we supported Saddam during all of that and even gave him 'permission' before invading Kuwait? SD hasn't done anything like that since the end of the gulf war over 10 years ago.
Hell, why don't we just invade Japan again for Perl harbor. Sure it was a while ago, but hey.
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I'll stick to Simpsons, Beavis and Butthead and Futurama, thank you very much.
I think it's a US government attempt to DoS Iraq with a nice slashdotting. I guess Saddam's infrastructure stands up to the test.
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... DUBYA dubya ?
>DUBIA dubia, 00 11126
>AE Phone: 971 4 2224482
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What an astounding bit of moral equivalency. Let's see, Bush is a brutal dictator who bombs innocents in the name of political terror, the Iraq is a republic defending itself and it's freedom by selectively attacking only those who attacked it first, and in the process bringing freedom to millions. Yeah, no difference whatsoever. Fucking asshole.
Hey now. ANyone else here noice that uruk is the word for Orc in Elven (tolkien series)? Just thought i'd point that out... little bastid saddam
Then maybe we should expand CIA and FBI and other non techie acronyms. Seriously, using WMD isn't a /. only thing, it's on CNN and yahoo at least. I don't think it is unreasonable for them to have used it and it's too stupid of an actual phrase to bother typing out.
-no broken link
solaris w/ java webserver 2.0
pathnames on server
http://www.uruklink.net/page/WS_FTP.LOG
also part of iraq2000.com (haha olympics in iraq)
Browsing directories on this server (uruklink.net) is permitted. Wonder what kind of files are loaded on this system? Some poor soul in Iraq is gonna suffer when Saddam finds out American geeks have been hacking his site.
C:\>
excellent ;)
Iraq surrenders.
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I was just trying to get to Project Gutenberg because i felt like doing some reading and typed in www.projectgutenberg.net and it takes you to the Permanent Mission of Iraq to the United Nations, New York web site.
My all time fav is that I can "..save money by investing in free sales generating reports, while adding years to my life by relaxing more and deleting millions of spam's, I can add inches to my penis ( if I was a guy ), could increase my sex life, could get half of the money left behind by what appears to be a well travelled Affrican, European, Asian from South America, and all this while working from home! - phew! now all I nead is time travel..
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-abad would be better. Floridabad. Means city. -stan means nation. You dumb mother fucker. I hate Islamic fuckface towel heads, but you have to knwo basic things about your enemy.
Or do you mean that now when Iraq is a part of the "Axis of Enron^M^M^M^Mvil", you can forget the past dealings just like that? Just like you did with bin Laden, Pinochet, et. al.
In effect, you harvest what you plant.
______________
OTTERS RULE.
maybe you should ask saddam personally. good luck ,dipshit.
In youre case to find youre truth you have to look at left wing sites. get real.
> I wonder what the login was." You'd think it was "press," password "press," but if it were that obvious I think someone would have said so. Allah or Islam or Quran/Koran would be my first three guesses.
The options they had:
1. Saddam Hussein
2. Current incumbent
3. A horribly slow and painfull death at the hands of the large man standing behind you.
I only mod flamebait if the post is a an attempt at trolling that entirely fails to hide the fact that it's trying cause angry responses.
Guard: That's the kind of a password an idiot has on his luggage!
Saddam: Remind me to change the password on my luggage.
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.
Login: abomb
pass: abomb
Just wondered.
I wonder what it would be too, but what if he is using arabic words instead of english. Maybe it is bomb or kill in Arabic. By the way I wonder if there are any scripts that would hit popular Arabic words first.
Now, the people who hacked the Iraqi dictator's inbox must have a website somewhere with all these e-mails for the Slashdot community to enjoy, right? Any clues?
Just goes to show you how little the left has learned, and how narrow their view of 9/11 has become. The lesson of 9/11 was not about just one nation, or one group, it is about the danger of ignoring clear and gathering dangers in this age of uber-fanatics waging asymmetrical warfare. It was about soberly looking at situations and heading them off before they happen, rather than hoping against hope that we'll get really lucky and intercept that nuke before they happen.
So I take it you favor castrating all men because some of them rape?
Ah, rather then actually try link Saddam to 9/11 you merely say that it doesn't matter if he was involved or not, it was 'bad' and Saddam is also 'bad' therefore Saddam must go. Well, excuse me if I don't fall for such moronic logic. There is no relation between Saddam and 9/11, so whatever happened on 9/11 is not a reasonable argument for discussing Saddam. Would your argument work if there had never been a 9/11? If not, then it shouldn't work now.
Oh, cry for me. Preemptive attacks are an extremely common occurance throughout history.
Preemptive strikes by the US are not a common occurrence. In fact they have never happened. This will be the first time ever.
Hold your horses, dude, Kim Jong Il (sp?) is simply NOT insane, I don't know where you got that.
It isn't obvious
As for your point, he may be a brutal dictator, but he's never (to our knowledge) used chemical weapons on his own people
Would you rather be gassed to death or die of starvation? "conservatives" love bash Mao for killing tens of millions of people even though the vast majority died due to poor planning then to any malicious act. The thing is, South Korea has more then enough material wealth to go around, and could easily provide for everyone. Yet he belligerently holds power, and rebuffs opportunities to open his country. While at the same time letting people starve to death. He's killed far more of "his own" then Saddam ever will.
he doesn't assassinate foreign leaders,
Yes he does.
he doesn't invade his neighbors every chance he gets,
Well, how do you define chance? I don't think he's ever had the 'chance', as S.K and the US would crush him at the first opportunity. Similarly, Iraq has not invaded a single country in the last 10 years.
and he doesn't fund Palestinian terrorist
But they do sell advanced weapons technology to countries like Iran.
or have regular pow-wows with top Al Qaeda and other terrorist functionaries.
There is no evidence that Saddam does this either.
In any event, none of this has said has any baring on wether or not KJI is insane only wether or not he is more bad then Saddam. You can in fact be very nice, and still very insane.
Why do I think KJI is insane? Well, would a sane person kidnap Japanese film makers and force them to do remakes of Godzilla? Would a sane person run their country into the ground causing mass starvation while at the same time building some of the most advanced missile technology on earth (and almost nothing else) Would a sane man ban pregnant women from the capital city? Would a sane man allow said Japanese kidnap victims to return home with his face pinned to their clothing while keeping their family members back home? Would a sane man give out medals to peaces of machinery? Would a sane man preside over one of the most orwelian places on earth? Seriously, how can you call KJI sane with a straight face?
It seems like you're more ignorant that anything else.
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Is Australia still a colony? ;-)
5 points for your main point, from a Yank.
One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic
is our support for UNIX?
Unix was written on our machines and for our machines many years ago.
Today, much of UNIX being done is done on our machines. Ten percent of our
VAXs are going for UNIX use. UNIX is a simple language, easy to understand,
easy to get started with. It's great for students, great for somewhat casual
users, and it's great for interchanging programs between different machines.
And so, because of its popularity in these markets, we support it. We have
good UNIX on VAX and good UNIX on PDP-11s.
It is our belief, however, that serious professional users will run
out of things they can do with UNIX. They'll want a real system and will end
up doing VMS when they get to be serious about programming.
With UNIX, if you're looking for something, you can easily and quickly
check that small manual and find out that it's not there. With VMS, no matter
what you look for -- it's literally a five-foot shelf of documentation -- if
you look long enough it's there. That's the difference -- the beauty of UNIX
is it's simple; and the beauty of VMS is that it's all there.
-- Ken Olsen, president of DEC, DECWORLD Vol. 8 No. 5, 1984
[It's been argued that the beauty of UNIX is the same as the beauty of Ken
Olsen's brain. Ed.]
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