Fox News' FTP Password Anyone?

An anonymous reader writes "While browsing around the Fox News website, I found that directory indexes are turned on. So, I started following the tree up, until I got to /admin. Eventually, I found my way into /admin/xml_parser/zdnet/, in which, there is a shell script. Seeing as it's a shell script, and I use Linux, I took a peek. Inside, is a username and password to an FTP. So, of course, I tried to login. The result? Epic fail on Fox's part. And seriously, what kind of password is T1me Out. This is just pathetic." It's already been changed of course, but that's still pretty amusing.

Comments

Re:Wasted chance

[cheezedawg]

No, you colossal boob, not everyone thought there were WMD's.

Okay- name one country that didn't agree that Saddam was in violation of Resolution 687. You are probably right that not "everybody" believed it, but you will find that the list of countries that did not is pretty short.

First, don't lump chemical and biological with nuclear. Yes, I know analysts do it but I think it unfairly magnifies the threat level of the BC in NBC.

You think its unfair? Saddam wasn't allowed to have any of these weapons, and it was the UN that decided that. It was decided by unanimous UN Security Council mandate with an explicit authorization to use force to get Saddam to disarm, and that was reconfirmed over a dozen times in the following 12 years.

The specific charge Bush used to get our panties in a wad was nuclear weapons.

President Bush's case for war against Iraq was that they posed a threat to our national security. Their blatent (and 100% confirmed) violation of their cease-fire disarmament mandate was a big part of that, along with their longstanding support of international terrorism and their repeated attempts to use terrorism against the United States.

Yellow cake uranium, lie.

This is another myth perpetuated by the Bush-hating anti-war crowd. The Bush Administration claimed that Iraq had been sending out feelers for for uranium deals in Africa. This was based mostly on information shared from British intelligence (that they still stand by, btw), and strengthened when Joe Wilson went to Niger where they confirmed that Iraqi representatives had been there to form a "business relationship", which Niger understood to be about uranium sales. This is also 100% uninteresting to the debate about the war because these uranium deals were insignificant to the CIA's key assessment about Iraq's nuclear capability (because Iraq already had over 500 tons of yellowcake that we knew about).

Aluminum tubes, lie.

How was this a lie? Iraq did in fact purchase restricted-use aluminum tubes without declaring them to UNMOVIC, which itself is a gross violation of their cease-fire mandate, and many intelligence agencies thought they were heading for uranium enrichment. Where's the "lie"?

The CIA was giving Bush solid intel but he and his team refused to accept it. Cheney and his cronies cherry-picked raw intel for the most sensationalistic shit they could find, regardless of whether it was true or not.

There is no evidence outside of the wet dreams of the rabid Bush-haters that this is based on any truth. On the contrary, there have been a few official reviews that concluded the exact opposite- that the Bush Administration did NOT manipulate pre-war intelligence.

When you say "most people assumed Saddam had WMD" you really mean "Most people assumed he had some leftover chemical or biological shit", not that he had nukes ready to strike the west in 45 minutes. The consensus before 9-11, a consensus backed by Powell, was that the US policy of Iraqi containment was working.

Wow. Did you read any of the ISG report on Iraq's WMD programs? Hell- did you even read the key findings? After the invasion, the ISG found over a dozen hidden, active, and illegal weapons programs in Iraq that the UN had no idea existed. Yes, they didn't find the decades-old decaying WMD stockpiles that they thought would be there. Instead they found hidden and illegal infrastructure, procurement systems, and research in place to build brand new weapons. If you take a deep breath, you might realize that this is actually worse! Containment? I think not.

I'm sick of lies and lying liars. I'm sick of people who rewrite the facts to justify doing something and then rewrite history to protect themselves from that fuckup.

Indeed.