Religious Hacker Defaces 111 Escort Sites (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader shares this article from Softpedia: A religiously-motivated Moroccan hacker has defaced 111 different web sites promoting escort services since last summer as part of an ongoing protest against the industry. "In January, the hacker defaced 79 escort websites," writes Softpedia. "His actions didn't go unnoticed, and on some online forums where escorts and webmasters of these websites met, his name was brought up in discussions and used to drive each other in implementing better Web security. While some webmasters did their job, some didn't. During the past days, the hacker has been busy defacing a new set of escort websites... Most of these websites bare ElSurveillance's defacement message even today... Most of the websites are from the UK."
His newest round of attacks replace the sites with a pro-Palestine message and a quote from the quran, though in January Softpedia reported the attacker was also stealing data from some of the sites about their users' accounts.

Comments

Re:Huh.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Saudi ankle porn? Well, local preferences vary. I've read somewhere that Palestinians are downloading Israeli porn like crazy, and you might be surprised (or not?) by which countries generate most searches for "animal sex porn" on Google Trends.

Re:So IF ?

[Earthquake Retrofit]

I consider it off topic.

Re: Muslim or Christian Evangelical ?

[dunkelfalke]

Key words there are "was" and the fact that the purges were motivated by the belief--a positive claim--that all religion is a threat that must be stopped. One may note that this belief both informed and motivated the purges. Although it is commonly coincident with an atheistic position in modern times, do note that this is a positive claim susceptible to empirical inquiry. We merely have to look at the death tolls.

No, the purge was motivated by the unwillingness to share power. You see, until 1917 Russia has been an absolutist monarchy - the last one in Europe. In an absolutist monarchy the church plays a huge role - the monarch is appointed by the god after all. Russian orthodox church had money, land and a shitload of followers, hence it had to be, as they call it nowadays, "rightsized". Stalin wasn't a Russian, but a Georgian and he spared the churches and clergy in Georgia.

So, the notion that Stalin was an atheist is wrong, as is the notion that his purges of the Russian orthodox church was anything else but a power game.

Moreover, I find your construction rather odd, because if I'm not mistaken, it seems that you can't reasonably believe that atheists exist at all?

I have no idea whence you got that. I am an atheist myself, always have been.