Why do you say it has been hacked. Maybe the truth police have cracked down.

Wow.. Nice job..

But while I aplaud the efforts to embarass these jackasses, its unfortunate they waisted an opportunity to slam regular visitors of this site with an indoctrination to Anti-Idiotarian thinking..

Maybe next time..

Unless maybe the pig and monkey reference were tongue-in cheek reminders of Hezbollah & Co.'s usual anti-Jew rants, in which case I now find it funny..

Ben Noah,

It is about the pig and monkey reference.

It really is funny.

Could anybody tell what the bottom phrase means? I suspect it's some sort of insulting Hebrew-Arabic wordplay.

I guess they cropped the photo, because you can't see the spiderweb above the pig that has the word "MARTYR" spun into it.

Charles, I hope you will explain the hack to those of us who have not been habituees of that particular website. Or will it need a translator to tell us what the text says, too?

Well, who could it have been, hmm? Any guesses? I wonder if they will eventually try take credit for it. The notorious Kevin Mitnick? 'Emmanuel Goldstein' from 2600? Or the German Chaos Computer Club?

Care to divulge further details, Mr. Johnson?

What's it all about, Alfie...?

Maybe it was the LOD (Legion of Doom--are they even around anymore?).

Well done, hakerz!

Q,

Apparently it means, "son of a dog" in Arabic.

The bottom is a little wrong grammatically, but roughly,

"god is great sons of dogs"

My Egyptian officemate says that Hizbollah's website is one of the most hacked.

Don't people realize that this will only fuel the sense of outrage and shame on the Arab street, leading to more 9/11s?

I think we should ask ourselves why we feel they deserve this sort of treatment, and punish ourselves accordingly.

Mike:

Don't forget humiliation. This is unpardonable.

This little piggy bombed a market
This little piggy threw stones
This little piggy wanted the West Bank
This little piggy got none
This little piggy said "Wah! Wah! Wah!"
When they bulldozed his home.

I think we should ask ourselves why we feel they deserve this sort of treatment, and punish ourselves accordingly.

Right. I'm going to open a beer right now.

From my Arabic back from my days in the IDF...

It looks as if our hackers took Allah Hu Akbar and turned it into "Alla Wakbar"

If you say Allah Hu Akbar quickly three times, it sounds like "Alla Wakbar"

And Beni Kalb is "the son of a dog"

Doesn't make sense, but the point is made.

I am in agreement with Ben Noah about a wasted opportunity for the regulars of that site to see what their ideoligy really means (i.e. killing Jews, Americans, all kuffars, etc., etc.)

i have a better idea. let's fuel the sense of outrage of the american street and let's punish them accordingly.

Ooops...

Ideology

I suspect this was the work of the infamous Jeff K., l33t haX0r.

[Link: www.somethingawful.com...]

Mike:

Don't people realize that this will only fuel the sense of outrage and shame on the Arab street, leading to more 9/11s?

The Arab Street - we have this from Osama hisself - believes the Strong Horse Theory. So who is The Mighty Stallion here? Abu Al-Hakkar?

I think we should ask ourselves why we feel they deserve this sort of treatment, and punish ourselves accordingly.

Why they deserve?? Go figure.

Punish ourselves?? Punish yourself, Mike m'boy. I'm joining Ernie B in that beer.

oh well...

I always try to set the irony level where it will be detected, but somehow...

You've fueled my outrage and shame, I have to go kill someone now.

Is the other one--secursite8 still running. I tried to get in today but couldn't. Maybe is was overloaded with little Arab kidz trying to find out where to go to play at Jihad.

Did everyone see Salon.com's Mike Feohr cartoon yesterday "Al Qaedas Greatest Productions"? If you missed it, I have a copy I can send you.

Like someone said this was a missed opportunity but...we'll take it anyway. Tracked, hacked and f**ked! Pass the beer.

The hackers may be in trouble for the hacking part, but at least there is no chance of a libel suit, since truth is an absolute defense.

Mookie, you raise an interesting point. But who the hell would actually prosecute these hackers for hacking the Hezbollah site?

Oh wait, the FBI Internet Crime Task Force of course.

Can you see it now? The Reuters headline?

"FBI Nabs Racist American Computer Kids for Smearing Arab Activist Site"...

Just you wait..

LOVE IT!!!

Coming this holiday season from Universal: Babe Joins the JDL.

Throbert,

Don't you mean Charlotte's Jihad ??

foobar wrote:

Charles, I hope you will explain the hack to those of us who have not been habituees of that particular website. Or will it need a translator to tell us what the text says, too?

Well, who could it have been, hmm? Any guesses? I wonder if they will eventually try take credit for it. The notorious Kevin Mitnick? 'Emmanuel Goldstein' from 2600? Or the German Chaos Computer Club?

Care to divulge further details, Mr. Johnson?

What's it all about, Alfie...?

Had nothing to do with it myself! Zulubaby's the one who brought it up.

I think everybody's already gone through the monkey/pig thing, though.

This looks like the work of kidz to me, not someone who really had a mission. It would have been better to make an exact copy of the site, and divert only some visitors to the copy, so you'd have time to gather real intelligence before the webmaster noticed what was happening.

Still, as someone said above, I'll take it.

Guess who's coming to visit the President at his ranch next week:

[Link: story.news.yahoo.com...]

Surely this will be an opportunity for Bush to issue an ultimatum--to tell the Saudis in no uncertain terms that they'd better shape up before we ship out. Right?

Wrong. "The ranch visit, a coveted diplomatic plum, is designed to smooth relations with the Saudi government after a series of setbacks, including a recommendation to a Pentagon advisory board that the Arab ally be given an ultimatum to stop supporting terrorism or face retaliation. . . . Though the administration has already distanced itself from the advisory board and is not a party in the lawsuit, Bush wants to reassure Saudis that they are an important U.S. ally despite differences over Iraq, [a senior U.S.] official said."

Would someone mind explaining the whole "setback" concept to me? What exactly did that recommendation to the Pentagon advisory board set us back from? Another skyscraper being knocked down?

CHeck this one out!!! [Link: www.hizbollah.net...]

Growler (#13) LOL!

Got anymore nursery rhymes for jihadiot youth?

Ha. So will joints be shipping now with a Kasherate and Pareve symbol on them?

got to love it. taking the war to the web ;-) humor is the very best weapon.

Embarrassing. Someone clever enough to hack that site couldn't come up with something better to say? What a wasted opportunity.

Ben, I am sure that in addition to the FBI being on the caper, the eunuchs in the State Department would also deplore the failure of the hackers to act in consultation with our European "allies."

Nikita,

That link is .net

The real Hizbollah website is .org

Funny though.

Zulu,

Many web sites register many variations on the name so that whether you type ".com" ".org" or ".net" or even mispell the name it will point to the same site.

However, in this case I looked up the WhoIs on "hizbollah.net" and it's registered to:

Administrative Contact:
rodriguez, jose hizbollahnet99@hotmail.com
NA
pop
ny, ny 03232
US
But the date it was registered was July 13, 2002. What probably happened was that the real Hizballah missed renewing the registration and Mr. X here snapped it up.

What Glenn said.

[Link: www.instapundit.com...]

hmmm...jose rodriguez?

if i follow your explanation, james, this is the pseudonym of the person responsible for the prank? (i mean the hemp prank, not the hack charles linked to.)

wasn't "jesus rodriguez" the pseudonym of the narrator/hero/cyber-prankster of ken layne's DOT CON? could this be the work of an anti-idiotarian?

or maybe it's just coincidence. one thing's for sure: we know it's not layne himself, because he's a boozer not a head.

Lynn B: that's what I said too.

They should rely on American servers for their terrorist propaganda. We have much better security against hackers.

Note: The American site of Hizbollah has *NOT* been hacked and is still up and running.

---
[Link: www.hizbollah.org...] (hizbollah.org)

The IP traces to Lebanon

Whois Information from "whois.ripe.net" about 195.112.196.34

role: Cyberia Ripe Administration
address: Cyberia
address: PO Box 14.6568
address: Beirut Lebanon
e-mail: ripe@cyberia.net.lb

---
[Link: www.hizbollah.tv...] (hizbollah.tv)

Whois Information from "whois.arin.net" about 208.231.7.174

Norsac (NETBLK-SKWB-UURID-66)
c/o SkyNetWeb -- 3500 Boston St. #231
Baltimore, Maryland 21224
US

Netname: SKWB-UURID-66
Netblock: 208.231.7.168 - 208.231.7.175

Coordinator:
SkyNet-IPP, HOSTMASTER (HS1867-ARIN) sysadmin@skynetweb.com
410-563-6484 (FAX) 410-563-5457

---

When I originally linked through on it, I had to try to load it three or four times before I got it, and it looked pretty normal to me. Now I suspect I must have downloaded cached pages. I just tried linking through again and got the hack. Yeah, I think it's a kid. Maybe from Commander Taco's gang.

And if Mom finds out, Jose or Heshy--

You are going to be Grounded For Life!

Do you hear me, young man?!

Beth #33 wrote:
> Embarrassing. Someone clever enough to
> hack that site couldn't come up with
> something better to say? What a wasted
> opportunity.

How about this, not quite a hack, but it was bit more erudite:

[Link: www.islamic-news.co.uk...] (www.islamic-news.co.uk)

We ran this 'pro-terrorist' site for 8 months and collected all kinds of data. We even got a set of terrorism training videos from the Jehadis, (which we turned over to law enforcement and the news media), then we put up that message...

I agree with Beth (#33). It could have been so much better. As it is, it's just... juvenile.

The apache version they are running does have a published vulnerability. Perhaps that's how it was done, or could be again, in future.

Apache/1.3.12 Ben-SSL/1.38 Server at [Link: www.hizbollah.org...] Port 80

Juvenile, yes. But I'm still cheering them on! Because if a juvenile script-kiddie can hack that site, and someone like johnathanrgalt can run a fake website for months, and a (gasp) pornographer like 'Jon David' can hijack the al Qaida website... who/where can they trust?

Confusion is a useful weapon.

Juvenile, yes. But I'm still cheering them on! Because if a juvenile script-kiddie can hack that site, and someone like johnathanrgalt can run a fake website for months, and a (gasp) pornographer like 'Jon David' can hijack the al Qaida website... who/where can they trust?

Confusion is a useful weapon.

Props to you, jonathanrgalt, and your merry bunch of anti-idiotarians! You've done a great service in the names of Truth, Justice, the American Way, and great entertainment!

johathanrgalt,

That's bloody marvellous!

Just to be clear...

This Israeli guy that I work with got a notice on his screen about this link, saying that the Hizbollah website had been hacked. He IM'd it to me (and everyone else he knows). I thought it was hilarious. I don't care either way who did it. I just found it funny.

I asked him about the .org and the .net and he said that there are lots of mirror sites, but apparently the .org is Hizbollah's real site. I don't know about such stuff.

Sometimes it just feels good to say, "I'm not a pig, you're a pig, so nanananh!"

For me anyway... ;-)

Correction:

What Glenn
[Link: www.instapundit.com...]
and Charles
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
said.

I think we should ask ourselves why we feel they deserve this sort of treatment, and punish ourselves accordingly

Put down the bong.

And read this: [Link: www.samizdata.net...]