[ISN] Hacker gives Kuomintang Web site pro-Chinese look with PRC photos

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Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 22:49:43 PDT

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    http://www.etaiwannews.com/Taiwan/2004/05/10/1084154781.htm
    
    2004-05-10 
    Agence France-Presse 
    
    A person claiming to be a Chinese military veteran has hacked into the
    Web site of the opposition Kuomintang and replaced its homepage with
    pro-China photos, a party official said yesterday.
    
    One photo shows a soldier with the People's Liberation Army aiming a
    rifle at a target while the other shows two men raising the national
    flag of the People's Republic of China, KMT spokesman Justin Chou
    (周守訓) told AFP.
    
    The hacker has also written "I'm proud of being a Chinese and a
    Chinese veteran" in Chinese, and China's national anthem now plays as
    the Web site's background music, Chou said.
    
    The KMT has closed the Web site and filed a complaint with the police,
    he said.
    
    "We strongly condemned the move," Chou said.
    
    Taiwan split with China in 1949 at the end of a civil war and tensions
    have remained between the two neighbors. Beijing still considers
    Taiwan a province of China awaiting reunification, by force if
    necessary, and has threatened to invade if the island declares its
    independence.
    
    The KMT maintained a 51-year long grip on power until being ousted by
    President Chen Shui-bian's (陳水扁) Democratic Progressive Party in
    2000.
     
    
    
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