atlanta.indymedia.org cracked open with several others...
for awhile I thought that maybe something specific to atlanta had happened as our indymedia was down, but apparantly it is just this guy...
Hacker is deep in the heart of Texas
http://g00ns.com/ is his site...
Community Media Sites Cracked Across the Globe
At approximately 8:20 am MST April, 28th, volunteers with the Colorado Independent Media Center (CO-IMC) reported that their on-line news server had been cracked. Five years worth of community-developed news stories, videos, and pictures were destroyed, and the open-source news site was replaced with text from an organization calling themselves "g00ns.com". Within hours, a dozen other affiliates of the global Independent Media Center collective fell victim to the same form of attack. The parties taking responsibility claimed that the people behind IMC are "anti-Republican." The colorado.indymedia.org website is a local affiliate of a global grassroots media movement, with over 200 chapters world-wide. Like the main Indymedia website (www.indymedia.org), the locally-based IMC website was largely populated with articles chronicling local and international movements ranging from criticisms of the Iraq war to various viewpoints on the debate surrounding CU-Boulder professor, Ward Churchill. The popular website receives over 1,000 visitors a day, but instead of viewing the standard news articles, photos, and links that visitors expect to see on the site, those who visited the website today were treated to the following statement "You have lied to the American People over and over again. You attend The Fifth Hope and spread your wicked ideology there. Expect more of this."
Identified only as "Clorox" the author went on to say "Our soldiers are dying over se(a)s to give men, women, and children a taste of freedom and you call them imperialists. You are nothing but pigs. You are not against Bush you are against Republicans, you are against anyone who has a different opinion and way of thinking than you. Your box got rooted for lying to the American people."
According to IMC techies, the individual is:
Brett Chance ( schance2@houston.rr.com)
+1.9362714430
Fax:
38 Alden Glen Dr.
The Woodlands, TX 77382
US
aliases: elac, Evil Bit, RWE, awb0t
20 years old
full-time sophomore at Collin Creek Community College in Plano, TX
majoring in Computer Science
5'5", 125 lb. Caucasian, wears glasses
plays Counter-Strike as elac
Catholic
has thyroid disease
previously lived in Houston, TX and Baton Rouge, LA
Chance was at one point one of the more notorious right-wing hackers. He was previously associated with ProtestWarrior and then rightwingextremist.net.
Director of telecommunications for his school is brian boring, @ 972-548-6644
http://indymedia.us/en/2005/04/6743.shtml
Hacker is deep in the heart of Texas
http://g00ns.com/ is his site...
Community Media Sites Cracked Across the Globe
At approximately 8:20 am MST April, 28th, volunteers with the Colorado Independent Media Center (CO-IMC) reported that their on-line news server had been cracked. Five years worth of community-developed news stories, videos, and pictures were destroyed, and the open-source news site was replaced with text from an organization calling themselves "g00ns.com". Within hours, a dozen other affiliates of the global Independent Media Center collective fell victim to the same form of attack. The parties taking responsibility claimed that the people behind IMC are "anti-Republican." The colorado.indymedia.org website is a local affiliate of a global grassroots media movement, with over 200 chapters world-wide. Like the main Indymedia website (www.indymedia.org), the locally-based IMC website was largely populated with articles chronicling local and international movements ranging from criticisms of the Iraq war to various viewpoints on the debate surrounding CU-Boulder professor, Ward Churchill. The popular website receives over 1,000 visitors a day, but instead of viewing the standard news articles, photos, and links that visitors expect to see on the site, those who visited the website today were treated to the following statement "You have lied to the American People over and over again. You attend The Fifth Hope and spread your wicked ideology there. Expect more of this."
Identified only as "Clorox" the author went on to say "Our soldiers are dying over se(a)s to give men, women, and children a taste of freedom and you call them imperialists. You are nothing but pigs. You are not against Bush you are against Republicans, you are against anyone who has a different opinion and way of thinking than you. Your box got rooted for lying to the American people."
According to IMC techies, the individual is:
Brett Chance ( schance2@houston.rr.com)
+1.9362714430
Fax:
38 Alden Glen Dr.
The Woodlands, TX 77382
US
aliases: elac, Evil Bit, RWE, awb0t
20 years old
full-time sophomore at Collin Creek Community College in Plano, TX
majoring in Computer Science
5'5", 125 lb. Caucasian, wears glasses
plays Counter-Strike as elac
Catholic
has thyroid disease
previously lived in Houston, TX and Baton Rouge, LA
Chance was at one point one of the more notorious right-wing hackers. He was previously associated with ProtestWarrior and then rightwingextremist.net.
Director of telecommunications for his school is brian boring, @ 972-548-6644
http://indymedia.us/en/2005/04/6743.shtml