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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.
WMD = Weapon of Mass Destruction. Not obvious, IMHO.
Ah good point, but IF military action is taken, it's not enough to simply remove saddam, the entire government employed staff needs to be looked at, every cache of arms that could pose a threat be destroyed, a new system of government needs to be made, new police, new army etc etc etc. Basically, little will remain of the old Iraq except for the people and the borders. Therefore it will be a war on the nation, not against a person.
IF action is taken, it must be such that no one will have to go back and redo it again 10 years from now.
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Wow, you're right. All this time I thought it was 'set us up the bomb', but after checking the bible you're right, it is is 'set up us the bomb'.
Someone should go back and moderate my previous post -1 Idiot.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
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.
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on his best, most charitable, not-killing-people day
If you set parameters like that, I have to disagree. Rumsfeld says he's letting people go from Guantanamo, meaning that all those people who said wait, you can't just imprison people who may be innocent were almost on the money. They only missed the part where they used may be instead of are. If you pick a day where Saddam isn't actually killing people, he's obviously doing no worse than this.
I wouldn't have taken the poster literally- and with stuff like the above going on, his figurative point is easy to make.
That said, Iraq is probably the only Arab country where women can wear whatever they want, fully participate in political life (well, to the same limited, oppressed amount the men can, anyway) and have full legal equality in both professional and personal domains. It's better to be a woman in Iraq than to be one in Saudi Arabia, or Kuwait, or even Egypt. To some extent, that's due to the nature of the Baath party's platform, and also to the fact that Saddam is a very secular thug.
That said, Iraq is probably the only Arab country where women can wear whatever they want, fully participate in political life (well, to the same limited, oppressed amount the men can, anyway) and have full legal equality in both professional and personal domains.
Bahrain held an election this week in which women could both vote and run for office.
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Oh really?
US germ war tests on civilians
Tuskegee syphilis experiment
more
US eugenics program
more
Intentional radiation of civilians during nuclear testing
more
Gulf War Syndrome, which was at first completely ignored and lied about, and finally recently acknowledged (although we still don't know what it is, nor do we know whether the government really knows or not - there have been accusations of experiments on our own soldiers).
not to mention:
Genocide of indigenous peoples as official policy
by the way, this shit was [is?] still going on in uncomfortably recent history still going on:
Supposedly, Himmler kept a framed photograph of a Native American, as a reminder of the splendid example the United States provided.
The list goes on and on. Sure, Saddam may be a war criminal. But our own history is not so rosy...in fact it is pretty fucking disgusting and we need to wake up to that fact. We don't have the moral highground we profess to have. In fact Iraq's entire history pales in comparison to the atrocities that have been committed in the names of US citizens. This doesn't make either right. It makes both wrong.
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
Alas, the user/pass is not "press"/"press", nor a mispelled "sadam"/"sadam". Ah, well.
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Uruk is a city in Iraq.
Kuwait's biggest political problem is its failure to provide basic civil and political rights for the majority of its residents, of course - the majority of residents are non-Kuwaiti "guest workers".
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!
Actually, I kinda assumed that the press@ address is, most likely, an alias that points to a similar Arabic-worded address. I could see that easily. If you have visitors from English-speaking countries, you'd have an English contact address (just like how they have an English version of the site).
If the site weren't slashdotted I'd try to find the corresponding "Contact" link on the Arabic version, to verify this...
The article didn't say that the username/password was a 5-letter *English* word -- just that it was 5 letters. That "press" happens to also be 5 letters is probably just coincidence, as if it were press/press I'm sure it would have been hacked a long, long time ago...
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