Forwarded From: Nicholas Charles Brawn <ncb05@uow.edu.au>
31Jul98 BELARUS: COMPUTER HACKERS WRITE OBSCENITIES ON PRESIDENTIAL WEB
SITE.
Source: `Komsomolskaya Pravda', Moscow, in Russian 28 Jul 98
Text of report by Russian newspaper `Komsomolskaya Pravda' on 28th July
Minsk: Computer specialists employed by the president of the Republic of
Belarus [Alyaksandr Lukashenka] have had no peace for a whole month now.
They have to be ready at any moment to protect his personal web site -
http://www.president.gov.by - from the encroachments of hackers.
The first time hackers broke into the president's Internet domain they
distorted information about official visits and voiced their protest at
Lukashenka's policy causing not just a deterioration in Belarusians'
lives, but also the international isolation of the republic. It took
state-employed computer specialists about 24 hours to recover from the
blow. They spent a lot of time trying to fix the site, restored the page
to its few readers and protected it, as best as they could, from the
encroachments of the hooligans.
But, in a short while, the evil hackers broke through this protection
again and painted the presidential site with obscenities. Then they opened
a new site - draniki.da.ru. - under the motto "345 days left until
presidential election". The most interesting thing on that page, featuring
mostly teenage-style obscenities, is an image of President Lukashenka
which starts turning, before your very eyes, first into Hitler, then into
Stalin, and then back into Lukashenka.
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Received on Wed Aug 5 12:24:59 1998