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Cyberwar on NASA Websites
Vexorian writes "Two NASA websites were hacked today by a group of Chilean activist hackers. The reason was to protest against the war on Lebanon. The mirror of the defaced site contains an image of an injured child and claims that the sites were running MacOSX."
Arabs? Chile is in South America for crying out loud!
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
They did NOT hack OS X. They simply hacked the application database running on those platforms. Why would the author indicate OS X was hacked when really, it looks like a large number of the servers hacked were in fact running Linux.
I'm not saying OS X is unhackable, but leaving ANY insecure server software running is asking to be hacked.
According to TFA it was an SQL Injection attack.
As much as OSX on a server is a contradiction of terms at the best of times, this wasn't an OS level exploit.
If you read their site, they used SQL Injection techniques to get the admin passwords and usernames.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
OS X server may have a lot of problems, but its not insecure. (provided you use the LATEST version) The problem with OS X server is that apple doesn't like to patch old versions. For instance, a 10.2 server can be crashed easily if its running the built in samba. Exploits will kill an xserve very quickly. They are also a pain to administer, very bad things happen if the reverse dns is changed in 10.4 server, and the permissions model is a pain in the ass.
Yes, I did OS X administration for almost a year.
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I don't have a position supporting either side, but I feel I should correct a point of yours...
Hezbollah had been making rocket attacks on Israeli cities before the Israelis began their bombing campaign (and later invasion) of south Lebanaon. I refer you to a timeline of the current crisis. They did escalate their attacks after the Israeli response.
Beyond the scope of the current conflict, Hezbollah has been firing rockets at Israeli on and off for some time now; for example, see this story from Dec. 2005 regarding a rocket strike from Lebanon on the town of Kiryat Shmona.
But really, if you want to try to say "who started it", you'll be going back decades and centuries. You can't view this incident in isolation, it's all part of the long history of conflict between many parties in the Middle East.
Even more than that, NASA has put up every single US military sattelite
Wrong. Military satelites are launched by the Air Force, not NASA, at Vandenburg AFB or Cape Canaveral AFB. NASA is strictly civilian launches, even if many astronauts (especially commanders and pilots) are former Navy or Air Force.
All this anti-Israeli and 'anti-Zionism' talk around the world is just anti-semitism resurfacing and trying to pretend not to be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism
"Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism
"Anti-Zionism is often characterized by opposition to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state"
The Anti-Zionism != Anti-Semetism, though the two do get mixed together.
The Israelis are great people that are surrounded by millions of people who have surrendered their minds to a death cult.
Not to burst your bubble, but the Israelis have heaps of fanatic (relegious) nutbags too. You seem to be confusing and conflating ideological extremism with religion. They are not the same, in the exact same sense that Anti-Zionism & Anti-Semetism are not the same, even though people mix them together.
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Because if you see images of children bleeding, perhaps you wouldn't support the war. Perhaps you'd stop the shipment of arms, perhaps stop sending them $3 billion a year, or stop the latest shipment of $120 million worth of fighter jet fuel, or cancel the shipment of cluster bombs.
It's difficult to demonsize an enemy when you can see the bleeding faces of their children.
http://209.67.212.138/~lebanon/
It hurts. Sure, you can find similar photos from Israel too, but these are a small group of extremists vs. a government who really should know better.
Fuck Hizbollah, and fuck the Israeli government.
Bullshit. They're aiming at anything that isn't Israeli. This includes Lebanese men, women and children. This even includes, from a recent event, unarmed UN observers.
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And Israel invaded Lebanon because they Syrians and other nations used to to stage attacks on Israel. And they are staging attacks on Israel because Israel invaded their lands. And Israel invaded their lands because they attack Israel. And they attacked Israel because they didn't think that the UN should have made that a Jewish home land after WII. And UN made it a Jewish homeland at the same time it was creating countries out of what UK had taken from the Austria-Hungarian Empire in WWI! And they took it from....
Let's all be honest. Blame Italy. It is all their fault.
If ROME had not invaded Israel and destroyed the temple none of this would have happened.
Damn Italians.
Anybody that thinks that they state who is to blame and who is right and who is wrong in just a few sentances doesn't know what they are talking about. I sure can't say who is right and who is wrong. I lean towards Israel in this case just on motivation. Israel wants to stop attacks on people in Israel. Hezbollah wants to kill as many people in Israel as they can. Even that is just a guess. Like I said I don't know who is too blame. I only know who is suffering.
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Unless, of course, those people dancing in the streets on 9/11 were, you know, doing it out of love.
Actually there was one Muslim country that had a candle light vigil for the US after the bombings of 9/11.
http://groups.colgate.edu/aarislam/response.htm
Funny that our so called allies (Saudi's, Kuwaiti's, etc) didn't give a rats ass what happened to us.
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Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons? Answer: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Yeah, except for that one nation called Pakistan. Oh and Iran in 10 years if we let them.
Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
Except for that country called Iran. Yeah, they signed it, but they certainly haven't lived up to the treaty. Not to mention that Syria has not signed the CWC or BTWC.
You know I was intending of going line by line on your commentary, but it's obvious from your first two "points" that you did not intend to add a well-researched comment to this discussion and I know better ways of spending a Sunday afternoon than exposing trolls.
Then who were Eyal Benin, Shani Turgeman, and Wassim Nazal? Martians?
They were killed by Hezbollah forces operating inside Israel, on a mission to ambush and kidnap Israeli soldiers.
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Reading the comments on Slashdot gives me great insight as to how the USA could possibly support the GENOCIDE that is occuring in Lebannon today. This bullocks gets rated informative.....
Here's real information...
This all started because on the 25th of June (right in the middle of the World cup) ISRAEL invaded sovereign palestinian territory and seized two member of hamas, this little fact has not been broadly publicised by an extremely Israeli biased media. Then on 26th of June Hamas retaliated by launching a similiar raid into Israel capturing Corporal Shalit, this was of course very well publicised, most think this was an unprovoked act of agression on behalf of Hamas in actual fact it was not.
Israel then proceeded to bomb everything the palestinian state had of value as well as arresting most of the democratically elected representatives of the Palestinian people. This pissed off many people, most noteably Hezbollah, Iran and Syria, they then launched another raid on Israel, in which two more soldiers were captured. Israel took this as an excuse to acheive political goals in lebanon, through sheer brute, murderous force. Israel is currently attempting to create a "buffer zone" for itself in lebannon... in other words they're going to drive out or kill everyone in southern lebannon within some arbitary distance from the Israeli border (we're not talking 2 or 3 km here... try 100-200km). International law classifies this sort of act as an act of genoicide.
Slashdot prides itself on having the inside scoop, being one step ahead of big brother... but in actuality it's been totally silent, not one single article has been published in Slashdot's political section on Palestine or Lebannon. Slashdot is suppose to report stuff that matters, how can whats going on in terms of such blatant media bias and misrepresentation of what's actually going on in the middle east be of no importance ?
There have certainly been spy sattelites launched from the shuttle, a quick google will reveal stories about those missions that appeared in major newspapers.
I have issues with the lobbing of missiles indiscrimately into a country where only civilians are hurt
Do you have issue with the dropping of 500lb laser guided bombs on to multi-story apartment blocks ?
Hezbollah only started it's rocket attacks when Israel began bombing civilians in Lebanon.