Fighting the war online.
January 6th, 2009 | 514 wordcountIf you’ve been keeping up with the Middle East crisis you know that there has been a battle on the internet almost just as intense as the battle in Gaza. Youtube videos, heated debates, propaganda websites and now, according to Slashdot and other sources, “Israel, Palestine Wage Web War”.
And I quote: “An anonymous reader writes “A war has erupted on the Internet between Israel and Palestine, alongside the war being fought on the ground in Gaza. A new report claims that a group called the ‘DNS Team’ has defaced an Israeli Website, with anti-Israel graphical images — one in a series of instances of ‘e-vandalism.’ This sort of e-vandalism, says the author, is not only an inconvenience for Webmasters, but many of the images contain malware links and ‘redirects or Flash links to Jihadist forums or blogs.’ However, while the Jihadist forums are registered in Saudi Arabia, they are hosted by companies like Layered Tech and SoftLayer in Plano, Texas. On the Israeli side, ‘A fascinating approach over the last few days is being made by an Israeli Website, “Help Israel Win,” which provides a download so your PC can become part of a worldwide pro-Israeli botnet. So far 7,786 have joined, already a fairly powerful global computing force…’””
Someone else writes:
“This is a natural extension of war now-a-days. This is akin to saying, “Soldiers Now Using Bullets in War”.”
To which they are replied with:
“If the dominant hand-held projectile weapon were still the musket, or people just still believed that, then yes, it would be news!
Anyway you may be interested in knowing that not but 5 months before, in the Russia/Georgia war the previous August, exactly the same thing was going on [slate.com] and an intrepid Slate reporter got involved in downloading botnet software from pro-Russian hackers.”
Go to the website to read more of the fascinating comments.
Someone writes, in regards to Israel…:
“by smooth wombat (796938) on Tuesday January 06, @03:32PM
Yet, amazingly, for all the aerial drones, balloons (yes, balloons) and other visual devices they have, no image of said mortar firing will ever be provided for the public to view. Instead, we’re supposed to rely on the word of a military who attacked a U.S. warship in international waters [wikipedia.org], who deliberately rammed and nearly sank a humanitarian aid ship [cnn.com] and who, in 2006, destroyed the only power plant in Gaza [boston.com].
I’m all for people retaliating when they are attacked, but to deliberately kill journalists, attack your “friends”, deny humanitarian aid to those who need it, attack refugee camps, and a whole list of other offenses, is where I draw the line. You want to shape world opinion to your point of view? Quit playing the victim card and start acting like you learned something from everything that’s been done to you.
And since when is someone defending their land from an invader a terrorist? Apparently all those Iraqis who fought against the U.S. invasion were terrorists. Same goes George Washington. Hell, by that standard, Red Dawn [imdb.com] was nothing but a propaganda story about terrorists.”
The man who wrote that is my hero.
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