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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."
Won't somebody please think of the -- oh, right.
First of all, everybody knows that Mac OS X is actually the dictionary definition of the word "unhackable" (it was the Wikipedia definition, too, until some corn-hole vandalized the entry), so these "kids" are clearly filthy lying scumbags.
I am from a small, grease-loving country in the north called Ca-na-da.
Probably for the same reason Israel is targeting Lebanese civillians when their beef is with someone else.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
I am so very sorry, but I do believe this was a particularly silly decision of the slashdot editors. /. editors.
Publishing a non-news, hoping to stir up a debate on a very sad combination of events, is essentially trolling.
I am extremely disappointed and will not feed the trolls, not even when they happen to be
Thufir Hawat
Part-time Mentat
NASA certainly qualifies as a military aspect of the US, especially now that there is mounting talk of the militrization of space. Even more than that, NASA has put up every single US military sattelite.
A blog about stuff.
So tell me, which smart bomb is smart enough to target the living room, where the rockets are, while you are in the kitchen and not kill you?
Your anger is misplaced, call 1 800 HISBALLAH and argue with them that they should not use civilians as shields.
You can't handle the truth.
That is extremely arguable. You suggest that the only form of useful revolution is the non-violent kind, but you live in a part of the world where this practical. Even in the times of Martin Luther King the kind of persecution that people faced cannot be compared to what people face today in the middle East - Although I don't think it necessary to compare as both were/are terrible in their own ways.
Also, you face strongly opposing points of view and ideology. Are you American? Have you suffered from the kind of persecution that Chileans did under Pinochet? If not, then perhaps you might find it hard to see it from their point of view. When they watch a country being shat on from a great height from a big bully, whom Americas and Western countries let happen, then it makes them angry.
I'm not sure what kind of Utopia you are living in but your breadcrumb reasoning sounds like something from Starwars. It makes sense as long as you don't try and use it in real world situations. It doesn't matter if it's true or not (it is on the whole correct) you have to work with Human nature, not negate it with cold reasoning.
Sometimes the only way forward is the worst, most violent way. Am I cynical, probably. Is that the case, probably.
Sometimes, freedom is worth fighting for.
Promote Charity on Myspace, Show Your Colours!
In all seriousness, a PSA in the middle east saying "We're buddies with, not run by, Israel" would really be nice at some point.
Let's play a trivia game, at the end let's see if you understand why the US is equated with Israel in middle eastern circles.
Question: Which country alone in the Middle East has nuclear weapons?
Answer: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East refuses to sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty and bars international inspections?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East seized the sovereign territory of other nations by military force and continues to occupy it in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East routinely violates the international borders of another sovereign state with warplanes and artillery and naval gunfire?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What American ally in the Middle East has for years sent assassins into other countries to kill its political enemies (a practice sometimes called exporting terrorism)?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In which country in the Middle East have high-ranking military officers admitted publicly that unarmed prisoners of war were executed?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to prosecute its soldiers who have acknowledged executing prisoners of war?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East created 762,000 refugees and refuses to allow them to return to
their homes, farms and businesses?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East refuses to pay compensation to people whose land, bank accounts and businesses it con- fiscated?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In what country in the Middle East was a high-ranking United Nations diplomat assassinated?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: In what country in the Middle East did the man who ordered the assassination of a high-ranking U.N. diplomat become prime minister?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East blew up an American diplomatic facility in Egypt and attacked a U.S. ship in international waters, killing 33 and wounding 177 American sailors?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country in the Middle East employed a spy, Jonathan Pollard, to steal classified documents and then gave some of them to the Soviet Union?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country at first denied any official connection to Pollard, then voted to make him a citizen and has continuously demanded that the American president grant Pollard a full pardon?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country on Planet Earth has the second most powerful lobby in the United States, according to a recent Fortune magazine survey of Washington insiders?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: Which country in the Middle East is in defiance of 69 United Nations Security Council resolutions and has been protected from 29 more by U.S. vetoes?
A: Israel. (Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
Q: What country did the United States invade because "U.N. Security Council resolutions must be obeyed?"
A: Iraq.(Ignore this, lameness filter bypass)
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All except the last item were taken from Charley Reese's Orlando Sentinal editorial.
Israel is a bad friend and the US shouldn't be so closely aligned with it.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
But he is not innocent, he was a willing criminal breaking british laws.
The word "innocent" always makes me uneasy. It is claimed so easily. You can only truly claim innocence if you have truly committed no crimes.
There is another element as well. We have heared from his friends and family that he was innocent. At one point they even claimed he was legally in england. He was not. He was, as is proven, an illegal alien in england. Wich is a crime. His family knew this. So they are lying. What other lies are they telling?
I am a very suspicious bastard and always suspect the worsed. I do believe the police made a really stupid mistake here but sadly that is what happens. In the same way we accept several thousand people killed because bad mistakes while driving we have to accept lethal mistakes when we have armed police.
A simple case of mistaken identity couple with extreme orders lead to a tragedy. YET we have to remember one thing. If this guy had not broken the law he would not have been in england at the time but in his own country, a well known safe heaven with perfect police and zero crime.
In reality this case is little different the a case from my own family, a distant aunt was hit on a zebra crossing by a police car with lights but not sirens. They do then not have right of way, only when both are one do they have right of way. She broke her hip and that probably lead to her premature death. Was the police at fault? Yes and no. They should have had sirens on BUT they are also under orders to use them as little as possible to keep the noise down (yes really). My aunt should probably have paid better attention, a flashing police car is hard to ignore, but do we all always pay attention when crossing the street?
In the end it is just a tragic accident.
In a way this person was just another victim of terrorism. True terror that lead to police being given orders to shoot to kill in a country were most cops don't even carry guns. This is what terrorists really want. For us to live in terror. They succeeded. The real victim is us all. Since we are the ones who create this world, we are not innocent.
As for your comments on peacefull protests. Yeah right. The middle east has seen a lot but peacefull protest is not one of them. Check the goals of the arab liberation arm formed by lebanon in 1947. What this is is just kiddies rebelling against the world and selecting the first anti-hero they can find. Earlier generations lashed onto to the USSR as their guiding beacon.
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