[I do hope this -- and incidents in the past like the defacement of amnesty.org -- will make folks realize that such "hackers" hardly live up to the proud history of that word. These malcontents are nothing but talentless graffiti sprayers, online vandals who exploit known security holes and do little, if any, research on their own. --Declan] ********* Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 17:12:52 -0400 To: declanat_private From: Brian McWilliams <brian@pc-radio.com> Subject: Hacking Vigilantes Deface WTC Victim's Site Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-UIDL: 14fc29d21af7e782a1ca129b15961383 Hi Declan, FYI, looks like a member of the "The Dispatchers," a coalition of Web site defacers, accidently "retaliated" Sunday for the terrorist attacks by defacing a site operated by Aon Corporation, a company with over 1,000 employees in the WTC, 200 of which are not yet accounted for. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/170184.html Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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