Web Site Hacks Rise as War Rages in Iraq

An anonymous reader noted a Reuters news story talking about Website Defacement during the war. Apparently protesters and hackers are defacing hundreds of US and UK sites, both corporate and government.

Comments

That's not protesting. It's spam.

[KalvinB]

Fine, exercise your right for free speech. Protest in public areas. However you DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO FORCE ME TO LISTEN TO YOU. Get out of the fucking road and leave other people's property ALONE. It's the same pathetic justification spammers use to justify loading users inboxes with crap that these so called "protestors" are using to cause trouble.

I remember back when the internet was viewed as the new printing press. Anyone can post their views. Now it's just viewed as a big giant corporate ad. And people are too freakin lazy to exert any effort to get their views out. They'd rather sit and bitch that no one is listening to them and then cause trouble. I happen to have worked very hard building up a site that's quite popular. It makes a great forum. Nobody owed me that forum. I built it myself because I wanted it.

I got a survey ( http://www.icarusindie.com/survey ) going to see who people think the US should be attacking if anybody. I have a banter box on the front page and I have an entire section dedicated to the war.

That's my forum. Get your own. Such idiots should be arrested and fined. As of yesterday 2000 "protestors" were arrested. Good riddence.

Ben

Re:Bias

[Anonymous Coward]

"I think that we had not yet come to a point where war was the only answer"

absolutely correct, we should have given them another 12 years ....

Re:KEEP PROTESTING!!!

[unicron]

Exactly when did it become cool for American's to hate their government? Ask the Iraq shiite muslims what they think of us going in there. And while I'm sure that the rest of the guys at the comic shop eat up your riveting political insight, the truth of the matter is your a hypocrit. You gorge yourself everyday on all the liberties you have in this country, knowing full well you'd wither and die in seconds if you had to live anywhere else, and you sit and bitch about something you know nothing about and couldn't comprehed in a million years even if the ritalin was working. If anything in America changed even one iota, 99% of you anti-war protestors would shit yourselfs and fall over dead. Before this all started, I wasn't even that patriotic. Thanks to comments like yours, now I am.

Oh..something interesting..when asked why Janeane Garafolo didn't protest Clinton's Iraq policies, she replied "It wasn't trendy then". I think you and her have quite a bit in common.

Re:And the point is?

[Genjurosan]

"Iraq is a soverign nation"

So that means it's ok for that soverign nation to kill the citizens of there own country in the name of a dictator that doesn't allow you to speak out with your own voice?

Now that's sick irony.

I pray that if the American government ever started to kill it's own citizen's for speaking out that someone would come and liberate us. It's clear it won't be France or Germany.

And I still don't get the reason why people are blind to the fact that the US is doing this for the good of the world.

If Saddam came out and showed us the nuke he had stuck up his ass, the likes of France, Germany, and the anti-war morons would swear up and down that somehow we are to blame.

Here's more irony for your list... Anti-Americanism breeds anti-France/Germany/Russia/EU-ism in turn. Don't be surprised when you find the general American public beginning to hate you.

Re:KEEP PROTESTING!!!

[unitron]

"Exactly when did it become cool for American's to hate their government?"

When it sent the Army to shoot and trample with horses starving, out-of-work World War One veterans and their familes camped out in a hooverville in Washington, D.C.? When they lied to us about the Gulf of Tonkin incident? When they used unwitting military personnel for secret LSD experiments, leaving them with permanent brain damage?

Politics and the Hacker

[Mulletproof]

Everybody knows hackers don't live in real life anyway, so why should weapons of mass destruction, 12 years of negotiation and mass murders influence their reality? Kinda like most Hollywood stars...