Re: Subject: George W. Bush the Red?

[root <root@jura.ne.mediaone.net>]

[: hacktivism :]


I would try checking www.attrition.org, or www.hackernews.com, they
usually have all the cracked sites mirrored @ each...

On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Me Uh, K. wrote:

> [: hacktivism :]
> 
> I've seen several mentions of screen shots captured
> from the cracked site - has anyone seen them posted
> anywhere?
> 
> -mia k (who likes politician's web pages, especially
> when they're cracked)
> 
> --- rdom@thing.net wrote:
> > [: hacktivism :]
> > 
> > 
> > George W. Bush the Red
> > by Declan McCullagh
> > 
> > 12:55 p.m. 19.Oct.99.PDT
> > Intruders apparently defaced the official campaign
> > site of Republican
> > presidential candidate George W. Bush
> > early Tuesday, replacing a photo of the Texas
> > governor with a bright red
> > 
> > hammer and sickle.
> > 
> > Visitors said the modified Web site, which quoted
> > socialist literature
> > and
> > linked to the International
> > Communist League, was visible around 9:15 a.m. EDT.
> > 
> > Campaign officials spent the morning trying to
> > puzzle out exactly what
> > happened, a task made more difficult
> > by the fact that the Web server automatically copied
> > over the hacked
> > page
> > with the original one.
> > 
> > "We're trying to find out whether we had a visitor.
> > Indications are that
> > 
> > we had a visitor," said Greg Sedberry,
> > georgewbush.com webmaster.
> > 
> > This isn't the first time a presidential contender
> > has been embarrassed.
> > 
> > Vice President Al Gore's campaign site
> > was hacked on 10 April. "Gore was broken into in
> > April. That's the only
> > one I know of in the 2000 race," said
> > B.K. DeLong, curator of the defacement archive at
> > attrition.org.
> > 
> > On Monday, the campaign introduced a newly designed
> > Web site, switching
> > from a single Unix server to
> > multiple computers running Windows NT and
> > Microsoft's Web server.
> > 
> > "I inherited that Unix box when I came on board [in
> > July]," Sedberry
> > said.
> > "I took that box and said we need a
> > more robust setup. It was developed from scratch,
> > and that's where the
> > problems can arise."
> > 
> > The campaign's NT machines are co-located at
> > Austin-based Illuminati
> > Online, which says it hosts 2,000
> > customer Web sites.
> > 
> > "The George W. Bush machines are not under our
> > control. They maintain
> > everything on those machines," said
> > an Illuminati Online engineer.
> > 
> > Jeremy Pinnix, webmaster of Nashville-based Anderson
> > Thomas Design, said
> > 
> > he noticed the hacked site early
> > Tuesday.
> > 
> > "I called them [the campaign] right away. They asked
> > me to do a screen
> > capture and to email it to them. I
> > haven't heard back, but when I refreshed, it had
> > been fixed," he said.
> > 
> > "Our first battle plan is to figure out exactly what
> > happened," said
> > campaign spokeswoman Mindy Tucker.
> > "This is obviously a problem that anyone who has a
> > Web site faces."
> > 
> > Sedberry said the NT machines are load-balanced, and
> > the master Web
> > server
> > copies files every few minutes
> > to the duplicate ones.
> > 
> > "We're going through the whole system saying, 'Are
> > we sure we locked
> > that
> > down?'" said campaign
> > webmaster Sedberry. "We're finishing it up,
> > double-checking,
> > triple-checking. And we'll see."
> > 
> > According to a screen snapshot, the hacked site
> > quoted the International
> > 
> > Communist League's belief that "we
> > must take the Marxist doctrine of proletarian
> > revolution out of the
> > realm
> > of theory and give it reality."
> > 
> > 
> > Copyright © 1994-99 Wired Digital Inc. All rights
> > reserved.
> > 
> > 
> > [: hacktivism :]
> > [: for unsubscribe instructions or list info consult
> > the list FAQ :]
> > [: http://hacktivism.tao.ca/ :]
> > 
> 
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com
> 
> [: hacktivism :]
> [: for unsubscribe instructions or list info consult the list FAQ :]
> [: http://hacktivism.tao.ca/ :]
> 


      # #    # #####    ##        
      # #    # #    #  #  #       
      # #    # #    # #    #      root@jura.ne.mediaone.net
      # #    # #####  ###### ###  root@jura.myip.org
 #    # #    # #   #  #    # ###  jam_echelon@hushmail.com
  ####   ####  #    # #    # ###  http://jura.myip.org
                        myip.org  
---------------------------------------------------------------
want an account? email me about it
Cable/public_html/CGI/irc/linux/no quotas/ftp/etc...    
---------------------------------------------------------------

OCT.21.99 - JAM ECHELON DAY - http://jura.myip.org/ech-html/

---------------------------------------------------------------
And for the folks at Echelon, I offer the following vocabulary:

Waihopai, INFOSEC, Information Security, Information Warfare, IW, IS,
Priavacy, Information Terrorism, Terrorism Defensive Information, Defense
Information Warfare, Offensive Information, Offensive Information Warfare,
National Information Infrastructure, InfoSec, Reno, Compsec, Computer
Terrorism, Firewalls, Secure Internet Connections, ISS, Passwords, DefCon V,
Hackers, Encryption, Espionage, USDOJ, NSA, CIA, S/Key, SSL, FBI, Secert
Service, USSS, Defcon, Military, White House, Undercover, NCCS, Mayfly, PGP,
PEM, RSA, Perl-RSA, MSNBC, bet, AOL, AOL TOS, CIS, CBOT, AIMSX, STARLAN,
3B2, BITNET, COSMOS, DATTA, E911, FCIC, HTCIA, IACIS, UT/RUS, JANET, JICC,
ReMOB, LEETAC, UTU, VNET, BRLO, BZ, CANSLO, CBNRC, CIDA, JAVA, Active X,
Compsec 97, LLC, DERA, Mavricks, Meta-hackers, ^?, Steve Case, Tools, Telex,
Military Intelligence, Scully, Flame, Infowar, Bubba, Freeh, Archives,
Sundevil, jack, Investigation, ISACA, NCSA, spook words, Verisign, Secure,
ASIO, Lebed, ICE, NRO, Lexis-Nexis, NSCT, SCIF, FLiR, Lacrosse, Flashbangs,
HRT, DIA, USCOI, CID, BOP, FINCEN, FLETC, NIJ, ACC, AFSPC, BMDO, NAVWAN,
NRL, RL, NAVWCWPNS, NSWC, USAFA, AHPCRC, ARPA, LABLINK, USACIL, USCG, NRC
[Hello to all my friends and fans in domestic surveillance]



[: hacktivism :]
[: for unsubscribe instructions or list info consult the list FAQ :]
[: http://hacktivism.tao.ca/ :]