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Politics : Let's Talk About the War -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (18)	3/26/2003 10:25:51 AM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 486

I wonder why DNS Al-Jazeera? Here's a take: NewScientist.com 13:47 24 March 03 Key Arab news station knocked offline newscientist.com The station's web site, which carried still images of the footage, was inaccessible on Monday morning. A spokeswoman for Al Jazeera told New Scientist: "We have a problem. I believe there are some hackers, some attack, but I don't know exactly." The spokeswoman said an attack could have been prompted by the film broadcast by the station. The Iraqi military provided the footage of forced interviews with five frightened-looking US prisoners of war, as well as images of the corpses of US soldiers. ... The number of politically-motivated hacking attacks on commercial web sites has risen sharply since the war began on 20 March, according to security companies. Once compromised, the sites are daubed with pro- or anti-war messages. "At the moment we are tracking over a thousand such defacements, most with anti-war messages," says Jason Holloway, of Finnish security company F-Secure. "I have never seen that level of political 'hactivism' before, nor so many defacements in such a short time."

To: Ilaine who wrote (18)	3/26/2003 10:26:12 AM
From: Ish	Respond to of 486

Maybe it was some pay back for the photos they had put on the air.

To: Ilaine who wrote (18)	3/27/2003 12:35:54 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 486

I wonder why DNS Al-Jazeera? Well, I guess I know, but I would like to see what they say for myself, even though I expect that I won't like it. Started right after the airing of the US servicemen, apparently. Obviously PO'd someone... Derek