Re: Hackers Vandalize C-Span Web Site

[PAN <jaimelm@umich.edu>]

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Pan

Flint Jones wrote:
> 
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> 
> So, if any site is to be considered a public space, it most definately has
> to be those of the media oligopolies?  I find the media's emphasis on the
> memo being a hox is pretty damn sad, since having read their hacked
> page... is pretty darn funny.  A couple of nice stabs on U.S. foreign
> policy, corporations and the military industrial complex.
> 
> http://www.2600.com/hacked_pages/1999/09/www.c-span.org/
> 
> The media has no humor.  They get what they deserve.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 06:19:13 -0400
> From: DAMN <damn@tao.ca>
> Reply-To: damn-d@tao.ca
> To: damn@tao.ca
> Subject: DAMN: 06-SEP-1999: Hackers Vandalize C-Span Web Site
> 
> Title: Hackers Vandalize C-Span Web Site
> Date: 06-SEP-1999
> Author: Unspecified
> Source: Mike Flugennock <flug3nn0ck@sinkers.org>
> Style: Mainstream news article
> Reference:
> http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990905/V000236-090599-idx.html
> 
> Hackers vandalized the Internet site of the C-SPAN cable network Sunday,
> replacing its Web page with a bizarre note that included what they
> claimed to be a transcript of a conversation between a U.S. government
> official and the leader of a Middle Eastern country.
> 
> The hackers, calling themselves "United Loan Gunmen,'' also claimed
> responsibility for the defacement of the Internet site for ABC just
> weeks ago. The group is believed to be relatively newly formed, and its
> only known attacks have been the ones against C-SPAN and ABC.
> 
> Officials at C-SPAN, the public affairs cable network that broadcasts
> House and Senate proceedings and other public affairs programming, could
> not be reached Sunday night.
> 
> The Web site for C-SPAN was temporarily replaced with a black page
> carrying the logo for the hacker group. It also included what it
> described as a transcript of a 1983 conversation suggesting that federal
> officials planned to start a military skirmish in the Middle East to
> benefit the American military-industrial complex.
> 
> But the "transcript'' was apparently a hoax, as the U.S. official
> identifies himself as the Secretary of War at the State Department,'' a
> post that doesn't exist.
> 
> The defacement against C-SPAN was first reported on a Web site,
> Attrition.Org, which tracks hacking efforts on the Internet.
> 
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