Republican Websites Hacked in Protest of Inaugurations

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/32998/index.php

NOT MY PRESIDENT, NOT MY WAR! THIS WHOLE SYSTEM IS ROTTEN TO THE CORE!

In solidarity with the billions around the world who are being oppressed under the Bush agenda, The Internet Liberation Front has hacked and defaced six Republican websites who push forward the sick and violent ideology of warfare, capitalism, and profit over people.

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We will not be their slaves and let them get away with murder. Activists and hackers alike are rising up to resist the Bush administration using street protest, sabatage, and hacktivism. You won't hear about it on their televisions cause the revolution is in the streets!

The massive counter-inauguration protests in DC is only the beginning. Expect four more years of resistance to the U.S. war machine. Hacktivists of the world, unite!

[forintegrity]

1. AWESOME!!!

The 4-year war has begun!!!

[RadiDem]

2. Great Job !

Good on you !

[Ian David]

3. OOh! Can we donate money to their legal defense?

Go, Liberation Front!

[Solon]

4. HACKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!!!!! n/t

[Neoma]

5. Woot!

[Maven]

6. Screenshots?

I would love to see what they looked like before they we're (undoubtedly) taken down.

(EDIT: Woops! Found it.)

[Occulus]

9. ATM they appear to still be up

follow the link to their mirror, and click the links to the various pages they hacked.

BWAAA! Though this could be seen as denial of service. Still, bravo on them for showing some cajones.

[Feathered Fish]

11. There is a mirror site

that's posted in the news release. Go to collegeconservative - they are -oohh- going to post a response.
YAY :bounce: LOL!

[Cha]

7. Fighting Fire with FIRE..what

a concept!

[The Backlash Cometh]

8. Um...before we get too excited, which 6 Republican websites were

hacked?

[Occulus]

10. these:

"The will of the people was not expressed in these elections. Imperialist war, tax cuts for the rich, and ecological destruction are not in the interest of working people or the stability of our global society.", the hackers wrote in a statement posted on the websites belonging to the Arizona Young Republicans, Students4Freedom.com, CollegeConservative.com, Freedominion.ca, RepublicanFirst.com, and Freedominstitute.ca."

http://www.freewebs.com/internetliberationfront/

[DukeBlue]

12. Pretty stupid..

Committing a felony to "protest". Showing off??

I remember reading in the times their server were seized after they posted hacked RNC info.

Carry a sign, streak, do something that will not put you in federal prison. Getting arrested for civil disobedience is a little different from damaging government machines. Protesting is a great thing.

How comprimising a server makes a protest is over my head.

[Name removed]

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[freetheworkers]

28. "Pretty stupid.."

I agree committing a crime is pretty stupid. If you want the Republicans to win that's how you do it. Martin Luther King had the right idea.

[newyawker99]

44. Hi freetheworkers!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[enki23]

51. er.... martin luther king also committed "crimes"

you've heard of "civil disobedience" right?

[lectrobyte]

38. Pretty Smart. Gets attention in cyberspace. Embarasses

web site administrators. Induces cognitive dissonance in users of the web sites.

[femme.democratique]

13. OK, so when do they hit the Freeps???? eom

[juajen]

19. Ok, folks, this is just wrong

As far as I'm concerned, don't mess with the internet. It's fraught with danger for them, as well as us. No internet wars. Everybody will be hurt. I say, do not encourage this at all, rather put it down in every way you can. Remember, karma's a bitch!!

[sarcasmo]

14. Modern day protest.

The new Computer age of protesting hacking a Republican site. I think one of the ultimate hacks would be the DOD.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. Type slower so Agent Mike can take it all down.

:eyes:

[DukeBlue]

18. Yep

That would land you a federal prison stint. Right in federal pound me in the ass prison. We have one up the road from where I live. Mr. Mitnick stayed for a while..

DOD invented the internet. You think you can get away with it here you go...

http://www.defenselink.mil/

Monumentally stupid and I have been arrested for protesting. Attacking a military computer system, come on.

Here is one for the script kiddies...
http://www.nsa.gov/kids/index.cfm

edit:sp

[Lady Sonelle]

30. Ohhhhh.... Myghod!

> Here is one for the script kiddies...
> http://www.nsa.gov/kids/index.cfm

Has anyone clicked on that?!!

"...and Crypto Cat will keep a watchful eye on you as you make and break codes on our pages."

That's right, Kiddies, get used to it. Get used to cute blue cats who follow your every move. I wonder... does Crypto Cat stand for cryptofascist catastrophe?

MAN that site just fucking creeps me the Hell OUT!! I didn't know the NSA had a kiddee page. I haven't even LOOKED at the REST of it!!

I wonder if Crypto Cat is actually played by the same short actor who plays Eddie Eagle...

Pardon Me while I :puke: :puke: :puke:

Lady Sonelle

Edited to correct a phrase

[knight_of_the_star]

15. Huzzah!

Fight fire with fire, the only language those people understand is force!

[jdots]

17. remember federal laws are broken everyday by neocons n/t

[pdxblue]

21. right on!

call it civil disobedience; call it felony. i call it bold and courageous.

[Jackie97]

20. Reminds me of....

when idiotic people for the war hack the anti-war websites.

Hacking is just immature.

[AliciaKeyedUp]

22. Well, I hope they enjoy jail

And I hope they get it.

Imagine the winger backlash shutting down DU? No thanks. This is a criminal act.

[AuntiBush]

23. While it is somewhat wrong,

growing-up during the 60's anti-war movement was on thing, but today with so much high-tech usage like the internet it does make sense.

Progress and different times. Boy, my liberalism is coming out now. Part of me wants to rally them on, while the other side believes it's wrong in that we certainly wouldn't want it done to us.

[EC]

24. Good

Maybe now they'll see we have good hackers on our side capable of rigging the vote just as well as theirs....

[theresistance]

26. Wait a minute, isn't this a crime?

Hasn't the PATRIOT Act included "cyberspace attacks" as acts of terrorism?

[freetheworkers]

29. "Wait a minute, isn't this a crime?"

I think the fascists want us to do this kind of stuff, so they can say "look, what a bunch of freaks". I think we can and should beat them on ideas.

[theresistance]

32. Welcome to DU!

[ConsAreLiars]

34. Yup, don't fight the fascists.

They'll complain. Can't let that happen.

(edit out unnecceasry qualifier)

[theresistance]

35. Deleted - doubled post

[walldude]

33. Thats true... under the Patriot Act any

hacking activity could be considered an act of terrorism. For all you people who think this was "immature" or criminal you need to understand the hacker a little better. You see way back when, the computer was the domain of the guy the jocks used to beat up in school. It was his private little world where he could be as good at something as the star quarterback was at football. Better even. These guys started setting up BBS's where they could communicate and share information freely with others like them. To them hacking was not stealing or malicious vandalism, it was throwing the touchdown pass in the last seconds of the big game. It took skills, brains, and some serious balls. The best ever, mentioned previously in this thread, one Kevin Mitnick took hacking to the limits and hacked the FBI, only to discover the Carnivore program(look it up) and ended up on the 10 most wanted list. Since the advent of Windows (Computing For Dummies) and the Internet (BBS's for Dummies) the hacker has seen his dream of total free information for everyone starting to take shape. Information is power. Du'ers of all people should know this. The problem is that most people have yet to find the places for factual information. Hackers have been trying to free up information since before most of you knew what to do with a computer. They will continue, as they did in the past, fighting the forces that seek to keep the facts under lock and key. If that means hacking a few right wing websites for kicks than so be it.

[Ariana Celeste]

40. Very well stated, man. eom.

:hippie:

[Jackie97]

46. Not that hacking shouldn't be punished......

but calling it terrorism is dumb as shit.

[burn the bush]

27. go hackers!!!!!

[RadicalMom]

31. Did the opposition knock DU out the other night when we were down

for four hours? Never heard an explanation here, and Al Franken's site was down at the same time when I tried to go on it (while going through DU withdrawl).

[theresistance]

36. So it wasn't just my computer!!!!!

I was wondering about that!

[RadicalMom]

37. Over in the Lounge we were all comparing notes on what we did

for the four hours it was down. And I really couldn't get on Al Ftanken's site then either. Does make you wonder.

[freetheworkers]

39. Al Franken

I'm a newcomer. Please educate me. Who is Al Franken

[Damien]

41. A good liberal guy of our time

Look at the following:

http://www.airamericaradio.com/

(He helped form it an has a show in the morning -- great to listen to).

http://www.alfrankenweb.com/

(random fan page)

http://www.al-franken.com/

(official page)

[newyawker99]

45. Hi Damien!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Damien]

47. thanks

It's good to be among liberals (living in colorado and all)...

[Ariana Celeste]

42. Big liberal man.

He writes some hilarious and very truthful books, like "Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot" (If I'm wrong correct me-) And did the skits on SNL as Stuart Smalley (I know I had to of spelled that wrong)

"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and gosh darnit, people like me!"

He is now on Air America Radio. Hilarious dude.

[Craig3410]

43. I know he was on Jeopardy! once; how did he do?

I think he won, but I'm not sure.

[BurtWorm]

48. Excellent!

:toast:

[Rapcw]

49. Great

good job!

[JPZenger]

50. www.alfrankenweb.com still down from hackers

It is one thing to add some funny satirical protest messages on someone's site. It is another to hack the site to the point it cannot function.

Hacking is not as funny when it happens to a liberal site. For example, the message board of www.alfrankenweb.com has been down for 2 days because of hackers.

(That is a pretty good message board by the way. It is much more manageable in size than DU.)