Forwarded From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05at_private> 31Jul98 BELARUS: COMPUTER HACKERS WRITE OBSCENITIES ON PRESIDENTIAL WEB SITE. Source: `Komsomolskaya Pravda', Moscow, in Russian 28 Jul 98 Text of report by Russian newspaper `Komsomolskaya Pravda' on 28th July Minsk: Computer specialists employed by the president of the Republic of Belarus [Alyaksandr Lukashenka] have had no peace for a whole month now. They have to be ready at any moment to protect his personal web site - http://www.president.gov.by - from the encroachments of hackers. The first time hackers broke into the president's Internet domain they distorted information about official visits and voiced their protest at Lukashenka's policy causing not just a deterioration in Belarusians' lives, but also the international isolation of the republic. It took state-employed computer specialists about 24 hours to recover from the blow. They spent a lot of time trying to fix the site, restored the page to its few readers and protected it, as best as they could, from the encroachments of the hooligans. But, in a short while, the evil hackers broke through this protection again and painted the presidential site with obscenities. Then they opened a new site - draniki.da.ru. - under the motto "345 days left until presidential election". The most interesting thing on that page, featuring mostly teenage-style obscenities, is an image of President Lukashenka which starts turning, before your very eyes, first into Hitler, then into Stalin, and then back into Lukashenka. -o- Subscribe: mail majordomoat_private with "subscribe isn". Today's ISN Sponsor: New Dimensions International [www.newdimensions.net]
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