Al-Jazeera OWNED! Who's got screenshots?

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Al-Jazeera's Web sites defaced
Visitors to both the Arabic and English version of the Al-Jazeera Web site on Thursday were greeted with an American flag and a pro-U.S. message, the work of an apparent online vandal.
The controversial Middle Eastern news service apparently had their domain hijacked. The actual defacement is served from a second server elsewhere on the Web. Technically known as a "redirect," the hack causes Web browsers that attempt to go to www.aljazeera.net to be surreptitiously redirected to the content hosted on the second server.

"Let Freedom Ring!" stated the defacement, which was signed by a vandal with the handle "Patriot" who claimed to be part of a group called the Freedom Cyber Force Militia. "GOD BLESS OUR TROOPS!!!"

VeriSign maintins the Internet registry for the .com, .net, .cc and .tv top-level domains and administers the an authoritative database for all domain names registered in those top-level domains. The domain hijacking may have corrupted Al-Jazeera's record in the VeriSign's database.

A representative of VeriSign couldn't immediately answer questions regarding how the domain had been hijacked. A representative of the hosting service that had the actual content of the defacement also couldn't be reached.

Al-Jazeera has had to contend with both technical problems and attacks this entire week. The Arab satellite TV network launched its English-language Web site on Monday, attracting significant media coverage. The site hosts the station's controversial video coverage, which has included images of U.S. soldiers killed and taken prisoner.

 

[rudder]

A representative of VeriSign couldn't immediately answer questions regarding how the domain had been hijacked. A representative of the hosting service that had the actual content of the defacement also couldn't be reached.


I wonder if that was in inside job?

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Come on.... someone's gotta have a screenshot of this...

that's the funniest thing I've seen all day... Freedom Cyber Force Militia... haha

 

[Scarpozzi]

LOL! NICE!

 

[Random Variable]

Walid Phares recently described al-Jazeera "as a high-tech madrassa, broadcasting the ideology of jihad to millions around the world." It's a shame that most people don't see it that way.

 

[Moonbeam]

Walid Phares recently described al-Jazeera "as a high-tech madrassa, broadcasting the ideology of jihad to millions around the world." It's a shame that most people don't see it that way.
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Yeah, the evil doctrine of preemptive war.

 

[ThePresence]

Sweet.

 

[AbsolutDealage]

http://english.aljazeera.net/ is currently hacked (redirect hack).

 

[FuZoR]

what happen to freedom of speech

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Walid Phares recently described al-Jazeera "as a high-tech madrassa, broadcasting the ideology of jihad to millions around the world." It's a shame that most people don't see it that way.
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Yeah, the evil doctrine of preemptive war.

OK.

al-Jazeera is a major driving force behind the jihadist movement. That being said, it should not be censored. That would just create more problems.

 

[Yzzim]

Just saw this on CNN, they've got a screenshot of it. LOL

 

[Moonbeam]

Vespasian, you don't win a war against claims of exclucivity of truth by pushing your own and excluding theirs. In that case the distinction of one without difference.

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Vespasian, you don't win a war against claims of exclucivity of truth by pushing your own and excluding theirs. In that case the distinction of one without difference.

Why not? It works for Muslim extremists. Ban all information but your "truth" and the sheep, err, people, will fall in line.

 

[Tab]

I would love to shake the hand of the people who hacked their website. My utmost respect goes to them

EDIT: If I was that guy, I would have flashed their expensive server mobo's, and hardrive's with a new BIOS and maybe change the cpu multiplyer to 1337

 

[Moonbeam]

Making my point for me, Bober?

 

[Nocturnal]

OWNED.

 

[AtomicDude512]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
LOL! NICE!

Go person!

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: Moonbeam
Vespasian, you don't win a war against claims of exclucivity of truth by pushing your own and excluding theirs. In that case the distinction of one without difference.

I said that they shouldn't be censored.

 

[Gatsby]

Thread on another forum w/PICS

 

[Moonbeam]

Vespasian, my apologies. You did indeed.

 

[hdeck]

Originally posted by: Nocturnal
OWNED.

 

[JackBurton]

That is great! They should hack the site every time they try to bring it back online but with different pics and messages! That would be great!

 

[rickn]

I don't get it. they put up messages let freedom ring, yet they want to censor images of real war. I don't see anything wrong with al jazeera showing casualties of war, although they could be a little more sensitive about it as far as waiting til families are notified before airing it. If you watch that network, you get the idea it tends to be very war-like in nature, to the point of glamorizing it.

 

[WhiteKnight77]

Al-Jazeera Web Site Hacked from CBS News has a popup of the website as it was shown after the redirect.

 

[magomago]

Glamorizing it like our news stations?

I don't think they should be banned. Whether you like it or not they are the ONLY independant news station within the Mid-East and I so prefer to watch it than the crap on Saudi TV

Because they show the opposing view to the American media, and watching it + us media + BBC gives you a better idea of everything in general.