Saddam's Inbox Hacked

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Posted by jamie on Monday October 28, 2002 @04:45AM from the in-order-to-have-your-advice dept.

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.

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Scary by andyring · 2002-10-28 04:51 · Score: 0, Troll

If this is indeed legit, it's scary. Granted, I know there is a lot of pro-Iraq/anti-American sentiment in the world today, particularly in Europe (why, I'll never understand, thank God I'm an American an damn proud of it), but this genuinely looks like aiding and abeting the enemy with some of the messages people have sent him. If I hadn't been medically discharged from the Navy a few years back, I would be proud to help in military action, should it be necessary.
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.
Re:Pearl Harbor ring a bell? by perlyking · 2002-10-28 05:57 · Score: 2, Troll

We understand these things very well, thank you, which is why we go to great lengths to keep our homeland from experiencing the sort of things that have happened elsewhere in the world.

You don't seem to be doing terribly well at it, perhaps the world would be a safer place if you stopped :-)

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Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! by Karrots · 2002-10-28 10:09 · Score: 0, Troll

I am a little confused but is this Hepatitis B vacine the same one that I just got a booster for about 4 years ago I didn't know it was banned and then why is it still being used every where?
Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! by loply · 2002-10-28 10:37 · Score: 1, Troll

You're = "You are"
You are grammar is attrocrious? ;)

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Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! by chriskenrick · 2002-10-28 12:24 · Score: 0, Troll

You're = "You are"
You are grammar is attrocrious ;)

Maybe, but your spelling is even more atrocious
Re:All Saddam's email are belong to us! by zapfie · 2002-10-28 15:17 · Score: 0, Troll

Maybe, but your spelling is even more atrocious

And your lack of end punctuation tops it off nicely.

(quick, someone reply and berate me for starting a sentence with a conjunction!)

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