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. . . because they’re listening.Fedz, hackerz, bombz HACKERS took out another government site last weekend, this one run by the U.S. Army. Army servers were knocked out for two hours, and surfers found something like this instead of the offcial United States Army content they all know and love. The hack appeared to be the latest gambit from a loosely-knit group of hackers calling themselves “F0rpaxe” (possible etymology: for + pax, Latin for peace; “for peace”?). The Army hack was fixed much quicker than other federal websites hit during the campaign. Websites run by the Interior Department, the FBI and the U.S. Senate were down for up to two days before they were back online.So what is all the fuss about? Following a hack last month, one of the members of F0rpaxe outlined their motives: “If FBI doesn’t do anything and doesn’t stop arresting people and making our life miserable, each member of F0rPaxe will discuss an eventual destruction of every single server. If that happens, everything goes down.” F0rPaxe and other hackers are protesting the treatment of their comrades-in-arms by the feds. Of particular interest to the F0rpaxe group is “Zyklon,” 19-year-old hacker Eric Burns who has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a number of charges. And of course, many anti-government hacks these days cry FREE KEVIN. Kevin Mitnick was held in prison without for four years before his recent “trial” on compromising computer systems. He is still awaiting sentencing.Elsewhere in military computer errors, it appears that NATO may have overestimated its hits on Serbian tanks and artillery by a factor of ten. Cheap wood-frame-and-tarp decoys look an awful lot like heavy armor to even the finest in American targeting systems from 15,000 feet. NATO Supreme Commander Wesley Clark insisted to an underwhelmed Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday that the NATO counts were accurate, even as a the BBC reported the West had only destroyed 13 Yuogslav tanks.Clark also ranted to the Senators about how the State Department didn’t let him engage the Russians on the ground before they moved into Pristina. This a few months after Bob Novak reported Clark wanted to bomb Russian listening subs positioned in the Adriatic. The Supreme Commander may consider laying off the Strangelove schtick if he wants the gig as first-ever domestic military commander. I’m sure he would find the job particularly rewarding if the Y2Kaos bug dos indeed lead to societal breakdown and martial law.And if one happened to be wondering why hackers cheesed off at the Fibbies hit an *Army* site, one need only look at Clark’s own career. As recently reported in Counterpunch, tanks and artillery under Clark’s command at Ft. Hood participated in the deadly fiery assault on the Branch Davidians’ church in Waco, Texas back in 1993. (Counterpunch also has a nifty bio on the Arkansas Rhodes Scholar FOB General, whose Battle Command Training Program sessions were rigged in his favor for easy promotion.) A civil suit against the governme nt filed by the Davidians’ survivors has been cleared to proceed< /a>. It remains to be seen if the Supreme Being’s name will appear in the discovery process. |
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