A Disturbing Case of Hacking
August 22nd, 2006 by Stephen
The Association for Computer Machinery (ACM) tells us it is the world’s first educational and scientific computing society. This is a society of computing professionals, who have formed - among other things - the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education.
It is therefore somewhat disturbing that their web site can be hacked. Today the SIGCSE site is displaying one of those “I own your site” messages beloved of website vandals.
But just as disturbing are the images the site is portraying - of Israeli girls signing bombs shortly before they are fired at Lebanese civilian targets.
Of course, what this hacker does not mention is that this idiocy flows both ways. As long as people teach their children to hate their neighbours there can never be peace in the Middle East or anywhere else.
So the third disturbing thing about this website hacking incident is that I can see no difference between the heart attitude of the attacker and that of the girl writing on the rocket (or the soldiers who let her do so). All that is different is that one side has weapons supplied by a rogue state, and the other side has arms supplied by Syria.
