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United Nations vs SQL Injections
Giorgio Maone writes "The United Nations web site has been defaced by 3 crackers who replaced the speeches of the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon with their own pacifist message.
This article briefly analyzes the exploited vulnerability and the technology used on the server, both quite surprising to find in such a high profile site."
The UN was ineffective due to half-assedly fucking up a security detail? That's un-possible!
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
It wasn't hacked! Their website clearly states it is down for scheduled maintenance. Honestly, some people need to stop spreading these fake stories!
I personally would have sneaked in and invented a new UN agency with its own inscrutable and almost-pronounceable acronym, and then sat back and watched.
Just imagine if, halfway down this page, you get an entry like this:
UNCRP: Works in field missions to improve standards in accordance with self-determined metrics. Composed of members elected to permanent positions based on a variety of factors subservient to aforementioned goals, assuming goals have been determined prior to agency initiation. Primary work areas include inter-agency provision of UNCRP-related efforts, with the ultimate objective of improving standards, mainly in the field.
One quick email to follow up:
To: secgen@un.org
From: Agency Coordination and Initiation Subcommittee to the Secretariat
Subject: Need traction on UNCRP agency kickstart
Dear sir:
With respect to the newly established UNCRP agency, we respectfully request formal approval of resources. We expect to be operational within 5 years and will submit the initial statement of work within 3 years from approval.
Thank you for providing the momentum to this newly founded agency; we have dedicated much effort to the realization of the UNCRP, as it is conducive to the eradication of, several things in the UN charter.
Regards,
Rolf Wittigersen
And that should be it. Make yourself some popcorn, and watch the headless wonder of a new UN agency being created. At least with the UNCRP, it would be purposeless by design rather than through the diligent work of its employees.
The Banjo Players Must Die!
Yeah! And koalas are little bitches!
The UNO knows what to do. See my small cartoon: http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2007/08 /strong-uno.html
Bye,
Oliver
'Basically, both Jews and Muslims claim the "holy land" as their own. So, who do we support, then, or do we just let them blow themselves to bits?'
At the heart of the problem is that Muslims and Christians both desperately want to be Jews. They, too, want the 'special deal' with 'god' that the Jews got.
But the Jews don't want someone not born a Jew (or who went thru a *very* special process of conversion) to share in Jewness. The Jews want neither Muslims nor Christians to be Jews.
This 'Holy land' is holy to Christians, Muslims *and* Jews for this very reason; that the Christians and Muslims want to be Jews.
And thats at the heart of most of the problems of the middle east and has leaked out into many other parts of the world.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.