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Pro-war Internet Offensive Begins

Submitted by olyimc on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 12:49am.

South Puget Sound Indymedia hacked.

Apparently people upset by the recent anti-war protests have hacked the site http://olympiaimc.org, erased all the articles and spammed it pretty good. We may have lost our port protest coverage. We will do what we can to rebuild the site.

Almost all the content that was on the site is also on other media sites like http://olyblog.net, Seattle and Portland Indymedias, Youtube and elsewhere.

They may try to censor people writing their own histories. We don't have to put up with it.

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This is ghastly.

Submitted by Debmonstrative on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 2:17am.

Some people sure don't play well in the sandbox. I'm truly sorry that you may have to go to the trouble of rebuilding your site.

Ugh.

Submitted by Tschida on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 3:22pm.

As a conservative I would like to offer my apologies to those who had their work ruined. It takes a lot of time and effort to put together a good site. The people who did this should be ashamed of them selves. They should be held to account criminally if that is what is legal. Those who did it should be shunned, in polite society. As a conservative I would also like to say that I reject and condemn these actions. Lastly, I hope we don't come to find out that the hack/crack attack was staged for publicity or political gain. That would only make those involved that much more despicable. C.

One of the great non sequiturs of the left is that, if the free market doesn't work perfectly, then it doesn't work at all-- and the government should step in.

Thomas Sowell

No need to apologizes for those goons Tsch

Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 5:43pm.

But thanks a lot for acknowledging the wrong.

Amazingly foul comments also.

Submitted by Mike on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:39am.

I was not previously aware of your site. The foul comments and the support and encouragement of violence against protesters that have shown up mainly through the Daily Zero really tell a story.

Journalism is about facts and truth. Capturing, determining and reporting facts. The idealogues who appear to have hacked the IMC site are not engaging in journalism, they are engaged in a culture war that results in unnecessary deaths of Iraqi and Afghanis. They are supporting an illegal war and the war criminals who have waged this war: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Perle, Wolfowitz et al.

Is it censorship

Submitted by security_six on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 10:10am.

When a non official agency does it? Or is it simply "offensive"

At any rate maybe you can upgrade your server software and make regular backups now... I don't hold in hijacking websites, despite my viewpoints

If this shows as a repeat post on similiar lines, thank the "spam filter" sorry. It seems to like me today...

That Is So Sad

Submitted by JstPlnOnry on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 11:20am.

I'd never heard of the site before either. I can't imagine the shock of waking up to that. I hope there's a way to catch & prosecute the hackers.

What are the odds of something happening to Olyblog like what happened at that site?

I'm sorry you have a hacker

Submitted by Norm on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 11:18am.

I'm not going to look at the page, but I'll assume it's not pretty. Good luck on the rebuild.

Not Only Is It Not Pretty

Submitted by JstPlnOnry on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 11:21am.

It's pretty disgusting. Some of the photos are sickening, the language is atrocious and I clicked on one link and got a porn video. UGH.

Interseting mind set

Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 11:24am.

of the reactionary crowd.

I wonder when The Olympian will report on this

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 12:12pm.

Why would they report on

Submitted by Ehver Green on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 12:34pm.

Why would they report on this is the better question.

It's vandalism

Submitted by Guglielmo on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 12:38pm.

Vandalism makes the news. As I recal, you have significant issues with vandalism.

Maybe they can put it on

Submitted by Ehver Green on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 8:04pm.

Maybe they can put it on their crime watch map. Give them an address and I'm sure they will. But, a story?

I can see why this would be reported on Olyblog

Submitted by Norm on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 12:45pm.

but I'm with you, I don't think it's particularly newsworthy to most of Olympia, let alone Thurston County. I can't imagine why the daily O would report on this.

Do they even

Submitted by security_six on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 5:01pm.

know about it? And if they do, why should they care? Websites get hacked all the time. Wah. Take it down, rebuild it, and cuss yourself out for not backing up, and upgrade your security.

Oh silly me....

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 3:07pm.

I thought that because this was directly the result of protests that were in Olympia that the local newspaper might want to cover it. You know, it might expose the general populace to something other than the "dirty hippy terrorists that were throwing newspaper stands and concrete in the streets".

You know, we might even come up with a completely new category on our poll - "do you think that these protests caused pro-war people to vandalize websites?"

Bitter much?

Submitted by Norm on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 3:16pm.

Dramatic at the least I would say. I never saw mention of "dirty hippies" anywhere in their paper, care to point that one out for me? It's really not that interesting Larry. It sucks for the folks who keep the website, but it isn't something that is that "public". As opposed to people, y'know, throwing news stands into the "public" street...during the day....in front of vehicles.

Boring...

Submitted by security_six on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 3:31pm.

Website hacking is not major news, unless it has some deeper roots. It's the online equivalent of graffiti. Ugly, pointless and usually juvenile.

Exactly,

Submitted by Guglielmo on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 3:40pm.

Like one "anarchist" tag on the side of a corner store.

Uh Norm....

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 3:34pm.

It's fine with me if you don't read the comments in The Olympian, but let's not act like that isn't in about every other post.

If I failed to mention, The Olympian has the right to delete all posts. I'm proof.

I guess vandalism has become another one of those partisan terms like "law and order". You get to pick and selected based on which side you're on.

I'm concerned with what they

Submitted by Norm on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 3:48pm.

I'm concerned with what they publish, not with their little chat program that others can utilize and share opinions on. That is not the Olympian, that is Olympia. Things like the above aren't just being said on that program, they are being said in bars, in school, at work. I can't count on both hands how many folks have brought up the protests to me, and not always in the nicest manner. I can hardly blame the daily O for running a program that allows people to voice their opinions. I may not like their opinions, or how nice they are about delivering them, but I don't agree with silencing them.

If I must...

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 3:37pm.

and this is one of the more tame:

Ms. Saari -- Do not put ideas into the heads of the POOPtesters. God help all of us if they take your advice and protest in the nude.

Talk about massive environmental damage! Olympia would be declared a toxic waste area.
Crusty | 11.19.07 - 3:58 am

Sorry, but I actually found

Submitted by NWarty on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 4:19pm.

Sorry, but I actually found that pretty funny :)

Not very nice, I know I know....But this P.O.O.P. acronym, although very unflattering and once again not very nice, is pretty funny.

(Here come the flamethrowers) ;)

Now, what was done to the IMC's website is flat-out wrong and I hope they catch the pi**ants who did it. I don't agree with what the IMC has to say, but that's down right vandalism.

Some people never outgrow poop jokes, I guess

Submitted by jlw on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 4:21pm.

n/t

Peace became pizza. -- Guglielmo

It wasn't the acronym.....

Submitted by Anonymously Larry on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 4:31pm.

"toxic waste site" because they'd be nude. There has been at least 300 postings about bathing habits concerning protestors during the past week.

I don't get excited about "poop" jokes. I already raised two sons that went through puberty.

Well, I laughed because it

Submitted by NWarty on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 4:37pm.

Well, I laughed because it made me think of something after taking the family for ice cream just recently and sitting next to three Greener kids. (The bumper sticker on the car that said "TESC" gave it away). Long story short, they smelled really really bad.

Then again my clothes will walk themselves up a wall after a couple of weeks in the field in the summer.

I have two small children so I get to endure 10 more years of fart jokes.

You don't have to defend it

Submitted by Norm on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 5:03pm.

I laughed too, and it is pretty funny. Some folks need to take on a little bit of humility.

I'm tellin' ya, first time I

Submitted by NWarty on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 4:23pm.

I'm tellin' ya, first time I saw that acronym in the Olympian comments section I about blew my Widmer right through my nose.

Guys and "bodily function jokes" = timeless traditions

I say, go to town with it, Warty!

Submitted by jlw on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 4:28pm.

Yuck it up! Who knows when you'll have a chance like this again?

Peace became pizza. -- Guglielmo

You know what I always say...

Submitted by The Original Yoda on Mon, 11/19/2007 - 5:33pm.

...It's the number 2 issue in this town.

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