ISLAMISTS TRY TO HACK INTO VATICAN WEBSITE

deutsche presse via email, no url | 10/11/6

[NativeNewYorker]

Rome (dpa) - Islamic extremists have tried to hack into the Vatican's website, Italian police said Wednesday. The hackers' attacks began several days ago but caused no noteworthy damage, Ansa news agency reported, quoting the police.

Further details were not immediately available.

Police only said Vatican Radio's website had also been affected.

Sources in Rome said the hackers were probably targeting Pope Benedict XVI's recent controversial remarks on Islam and violence that caused a cause a furore in the Muslim world.

[Beth528]

What a wonderful religion Islam is...thieves, murderers,despicable Pigs that will rot in hell... I am sure this isn't the first time the Pigs did this..

[siunevada]

Ping worthy?

[Dog Gone]

How do they know it was Islamofascists?

I suppose it's probable, but you need something more to actually assign blame.

[Michael Goldsberry]

How do they know it was Islamofascists?

Because the program they ran tried to spread its virus by mating with /usr/bin/swine ?

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Hateful basta*rds! Why don't they find a decent religion that believes in peace, love and forgiveness? (that would be Christianity or Judaism)

[A CA Guy]

I'm sure the technical people over there have pure backups of the site on hand.
All they have to do is figure out what they need to put up to prevent Islamic hackers.

Can't wait for non-Islamic hackers to get pissed and strike back 100000 times over.

[LIConFem]

Someone should "hack" into Mecca... with a D5...

[antiRepublicrat]

Can't wait for non-Islamic hackers to get pissed and strike back 100000 times over.

It'll be the US-China hacker war all over again, and we'll kick their asses, too.

[The Great RJ]

Gee isn't using that kind of technology forbidden somewhere in the Koran? ...can this be done during Ramadan? /sarcasm

[A CA Guy]

I figure the government military hackers are monitoring the websites of the Islamic terrorist for leads.
If they are not doing that and have not been constantly knocking them down, then we have insanity going on regarding the strategy.

I take it the terrorist sites are monitored.

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[Constantine XIII]

LOL, script jihadis.

[rock_lobsta]

hackers of peace... Hmmmph!

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Unless they were trying to hack into the coffers of the Church, I can't see what they could accomplish. Annoying, maybe; fatal, not likely; but if they could hit the jackpot, they've found a means to finance when other routes are closed. I guess it's worth a try -- I would hope there's someway to follow them home and missle lock on the target.

[tkathy]

Once again, islamists only destroy, never contribute anything positive to civilization.

[siunevada]

How do they know it was Islamofascists?

Yeah, the timing is coincidental. It could be somebody just fooling around.

[antiRepublicrat]

Can we make an ASCII art pig, and set the default shell prompt to it?

[ELS]

Can we make an ASCII art pig, and set the default shell prompt to it?

I like that idea. LOL!

[east1234]

It's OK after dark, as long as you're not doing it alone.

[Mike Fieschko]

Can we make an ASCII art pig, and set the default shell prompt to it?

I like that idea. LOL!

<. .>
 (@)
$:

In bash you'd put this in .bash_profile:

export PS1="<. .>\n (@)\n$:"

Too bad pink isn't one of the eight colors available. Maybe white foreground and red background. That'd make the PS1 variable

export PS1="\033[37;41m\]<. .>\033[37;1;40m\\n\033[37;41m (@) \033[37;1;40m\\n$: "

Prompt magic.

[Mike Fieschko]

Can we make an ASCII art pig, and set the default shell prompt to it?.

See reply #21.

[mystery-ak]

Sooner or later they will try to kill the Pope...it's just a matter of where and when...

[Maeve]

A friend just told my mother that Mohammed cannot be compared to Jesus, but rather one should compare him to his true compatriot of the spirit i.e., Madame Blavatsky.

[DelphiUser]

>>Why don't they find a decent religion that believes in peace, love and forgiveness? (that would be Christianity or Judaism)

Hey, you left out Buddhism, and Taoism

Even atheists are more peaceful than Muslims appear to be...

Does that cover most of the world religions or what?

[Bigg Red]

I Googled this story. There have been attempts, apparently, but I could not find any references to recent hacking attempts. (Sickening, though, were the many blogs that Google found that devoted discussion to hacking the Vatican's site.)

[Bigg Red]

See my post at number 26.

[NativeNewYorker]

Deutsche Presse restricts use of its material on the web, so it's hard to find. I got this by email from a proprietary news service, and copied/pasted it here.

[Bigg Red]

Okay, I didn't know that. Thanks.