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

Not a horrible password

[BHearsum]

That password would've been satisfactory if it was kept better.

Re:Wasted chance

[jrumney]

Clinton believed they were there, because at the time Saddam was refusing to let UN inspectors do their job. By the time Bush had invaded, the UN inspectors had already been in and found nothing.

Re:Wasted chance

[include($dysmas)]

the usual call to RTFA ... this is from the lame "the DoD are after me for using vista" site, who approved it ffs? read the article they link to (and link directly next time, stop paying them in ads!), its an account to grab files from zdnet, not an account into fox news, does it even have write access? dont let the facts get in the way of alarmist bs tho

Re:Wasted chance

[Aexia]

After Operation Desert Fox in 1998, Hussein's remaining WMD programs were finished off.

It's rather disengenuous to cite quotes from 1998 when he did have WMD programs to justify actions taken in 2003 when he did not have any WMD programs.

Re:Wasted chance

[mh1997]

Clinton believed they were there, because at the time Saddam was refusing to let UN inspectors do their job. By the time Bush had invaded, the UN inspectors had already been in and found nothing.

Actually, Clinton and Bush both new that Saddam had chemical and biological weapons because the USA sold them to him (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.h tm). However, what they did not know is if he still had them at the time of the invasion (although best guess is Bush did know that Saddam did not have them anymore), where they were, and if they were degraded to the point that they were no longer weaponizable.

Not defending Bush, I didn't vote for him, but I am tired of this WMD crap also.

Re:Ridiculous summary

[pzs]

I'm guessing that this is an excuse to rag on Fox and bitch about the war and Dubya some more.

At least the story had "ftp" in it, making it slightly more "for nerds".

Peter

PS. I was against the war, I'm against Bush and I think Fox sucks, but even so (and as the parent post points out), this is a bit tenuous.

Re:Wasted chance

[Legion303]

"Even CLINTON believed they were there."

Yep. In 1998. Then we invaded, destroyed stockpiles, and ushered in the inspection teams.

What that has to do with GWB's claims in 2003 I don't know, but I'm sure that completely unbiased and non-partisan site you linked to has an answer.

Re:Wasted chance

[mhall119]

None of the 9-11 hijackers had any connection to Iraq, and Saddam didn't care for radical Shiite Islamic Fundamentalism! I minor detail, but the 9/11 hijackers were not shiite muslims.

If America wants to encourage countries not to proliferate, would it not make sense to disband our own arsenal? Absolutely not! One of the best tools we have to stopping proliferation is saying the USA will use its arsenal as a deterrent force so those countries will not need their own. That is why most European countries do not have their own nuclear weapons program, because during the Cold War we used our arsenal to extend the MAD principle to protect them.

Re:Wasted chance

[good soldier svejk]

Yes, Saddam occasionally would kick the U.N. inspectors out for a few weeks

Actually that isn't true. Saddam never expelled the UN inspectors. UNSCOM was expelled from Iraq in 1998, but it was Clinton who kicked them out, not Saddam. Iraq did temporarily expel American inspectors in 1997 after they learned that CIA infiltrators in UNSCOM had passed intelligence which the US used to facilitate a coup attempt. In response, UNSCOM chief Richard Butler withdrew all his teams to Kuwait. But the crisis was short lived and everyone was back to work in a week. Inspections limped along until December 1998, when Clinton decided his purposes were better served by bombing. The US then told UNSCOM they needed to evacuate for safety reasons and Director Richard Butler happily obliged. Go back and read the news reports of the day and you will see no mention of Saddam expelling non-American UNSCOM members. That factoid developed later. Several UNSCOM officials, including director Rolf Ekeus and David Kaye, have admitted that the US illegally used the inspection program for espionage.

"As time went on, some countries, especially the US, wanted to learn more about other parts of Iraq's capacity." The US even tried to find information about the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein. [Rolf Ekeus, Director of UNSCOM 1991-1997, Financial Times, 7/29/03]

Re:Wasted chance

[LWATCDR]

Actually the US did find small stock piles of gas agents and one centrifuge that is used to enrich uranium. Not the massive infrastructure that was claimed to be sure but that statement that NO WMD where found is also false. The claim is that the gas agents where miss placed when the Iraqis where destroying them under UN supervision.
I know that I will get flamed for this but it is the truth.

Re:Wasted chance

[smitth1276]

We did find WMDs on multiple occassions... they were pretty much all small caches of old shells filled with mustard or sarin and which were probably were no longer effective, but it is a bit disingenuous for the pollster to take those answers and then arbitrarily say "oh, well those don't count... so Fox News viewers are dumb!". If the question was simply "Has the US found Iraqi WMDs?" then the Fox News viewers appear to be the only ones who were properly informed of those developments.

And, of course, there were also incidents where the insurgent groups got ahold of some lingering chemical weapons (mustard gas, I think) and tried to make bombs out of them--luckily, that also was old and non-effective. Those were widely reported at the time.

In other words, get off your uninformed, sanctimonious high-horse. :-)