Comments on: bin Laden hacked?

By: jack usaf retired

jack usaf retired — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:21:20 +0000

i like your page,showing and advertizing for obama,you news people are really screwed up,you had better listen to mccaiin,our future is in the hands of a man that can protect our country,withgreat experience,obama dosent have the experience of a private,as a matter of fact,a privat would know more...get real cnn

By: MB

MB — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:17:33 +0000

Wow. It's amazing how many people are still so ignorant about the Internet and how it works.

In the comments section we see people talking about tracking them with SPAM (via the NSA, no doubt!), someone suggesting we monitor them with "reverse IP tools" (whatever that is), using super computers to track them "in seconds", someone else throwing out the phrase "social engineering" like they know what it means, someone else thinking we can plant a virus on the web site that will allow a bomb to track to it... ad nauseam!

Not to mention the poorly researched article itself.

This is why I get paid so well. Thanks for your support.

By: Richard Rankin

Richard Rankin — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:13:30 +0000

It's time to go after their money. Start phishing for donations, find bank accounts, credit cards, etc. There's a lot of dough out there going to them. Let's steal it.

Oh yeah, I don't really mean it – I'm not encouraging criminal activity. Just a joke. Just kidding.

By: Heather,ca

Heather,ca — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:13:14 +0000

Wow. Who knew, so terrorist organizations have hitech problems to. I cant believe Im even commenting on this. This is so funny, weird,strange, odd etc. Maybe if they keep having technical difficulties with each other via the virtual online world they will hopefully stay out of our physical world and the real world attacks. So do they outsource tech support or something? How does a terrorist organization request tech support. Hi perhaps you have heard of my organization, we are very big and well known still dont know how about 9/11? Yeah that was us. We keep getting hacked and since this is a very busy time of year with the us election and a new president we need to get our site up thanks.

By: Andrew Leonidas

Andrew Leonidas — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:06:54 +0000

If the intelligence services really wanted all Al Qaeda linked websites removed from the net it would be a trivial matter, but why would they? They provide a honeypot of information about the forward face of the organization and those interested in it's message.

These websites provide a starting point for tracing the locations of all the sympathizers and possible cell members that access the pages and a technical means to back trace the origin of the media that is posted. I'm sure these radical forums have been the primary source of information used to identify individuals that needed to be put on a watch list and were eventually arrested, especially in Europe.

In the mountains on the Afghan border Al Qaeda has the upper hand, but on an open global computer network centrally controlled by the United States they really don't stand a chance, its the one domain where the intelligence services really are in control and know what they are doing. They are monitoring the websites constantly for valuable information and well meaning kids trying in vain to momentarly take them off the web are only taking away an important resource. If the intelligence community didn't feel that the gains outweighed the risks allowing them to stay active the websites would already vanish from the net before the suburban computer vigilantes even had a chance to hear about them.

By: Mike - Central Canada

Mike - Central Canada — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:06:52 +0000

Everyone seems to think that everyone visiting a pro-Al-Qaeda website is a terrorist. Far from it. People are free to support the actions and goals of Al-Qaeda if they wish. Terrorists perform acts of terrorism. Visiting a website and believing there are good reasons behind the actions of Al-Qaeda ARE NOT acts of terrorism.

By: John Tucker, New York City, NY

John Tucker, New York City, NY — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:04:10 +0000

I find it quite funny actually lol.... thats supposed to be like their top secret, password protected website.... So much for " HIgh Level Security "

By: Gary Davis

Gary Davis — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:02:58 +0000

I say let them have their websites and use them to find out who is posting. A good sniffer identifing the posters would be worth its weight in gold.

By: MH

MH — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:02:40 +0000

I can't believe people would be so rude as to hack into AL Qaeda websites. He is just another "victim" of the West ; misunderstood.

I'm sure that Bin Laden could find a lawyer in the USA to represent him in a suit against the government. After all it was "George Bush's fault" (per Rosie) for September 11, 2001. Better yet Bin Laden could sue for liable.

In reality...let's go kick the crap out of him. He's a murderer.

By: chris in FL

chris in FL — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:02:24 +0000

Obama will find him, he's promised he will do everything else. Wait, 68% of the military want McCain to win, I hope those inspiring speeches to all the cool-aide drinking, handout wanting, class warfare types work on the military.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:59:20 +0000

I say let Al Qaeda have some Websites. What better way to gain information then letting them post it online for us all to read. We would better understand their leadership, structure, plans, etc.

By: Philly Mike

Philly Mike — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:57:00 +0000

I believe that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 makes this type of hacking illegal

By: Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:54:55 +0000

This is not hacking. Their domain registration expired and someone else bought it.

By: stevethetruck

stevethetruck — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:53:37 +0000

Sorry, i just don't believe the whole Bin laden story anymore. Bush has worked with that faily for years. He even snuck them outa the country after te false flag of 911. they pull his pictureout of thecrypt every time they want to scare us but he has NEVER BEEN CHARGED by the FBI for any crimes related to 911 even though YOU, CNN, hd his face all over the news withing hours of the "attacks". Sorry I don't belive this hack story or CNN anymore.

By: StoJo

StoJo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:53:14 +0000

Regardless of their hatred of our liberties, Muslim extremists can neither control nor stop the spread, power or freedoms of the Internet. Although they may be able to place burkas on their women, they cannot cover up free-thinking hackers. God bless the Internet!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:50:27 +0000

So al Qaeda routinely (and often violently) rejects the West and our western lifestyle, yet they use the Internet, a western invention, to spread their message.

Hypocrites.

By: BGko

BGko — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:50:07 +0000

Anyone who thinks that bin Laden is still alive and that our government is and has been actually looking for him is a buffoon. The only reason the media and White House keeps up this illusion that bin Laden is out there hiding and we are trying to find him, is because if we find him or if we say he is dead, then it's really hard to justify continuing a war that was all about getting him. And the last thing they want to do is pull the military out of the middle east. They still have a couple more countries they want to invade as outlined in PNAC, an official gov't document put into effect in 2001 when W. became the president and written by Cheney, Rumsfield, Jeb Bush and Wolfowitz. The purpose of Iraq was to destabilize the region and set up permanent military bases. Ask yourself this: If the White House wanted to catch bin Laden, then why was it that on 9/11 after every plane in the US was grounded, the only planes other than military and AF1 in the skies that day were the ones that were carrying all of bin Laden's family back to their home country? Wouldn't we want to detain them for questioning? Interesting. But don't take my word for any of this, do the research yourself.

By: namsu

namsu — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:49:33 +0000

If the average hacker is getting into these sites, I can bet you that the Gov. probably has them under surveillance. Maybe the hackers are hindering the Gov.'s job. If you want to hack, do it so you can collect some information for law enforcement. If you disable the site, you close the door to information that may be used to capture binladen.

By: Jack Crowe

Jack Crowe — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:46:16 +0000

I didnt realize these people had the brain capacity to hack each other to smithereens?

By: dakota low

dakota low — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:45:20 +0000

well if it keeps getting hacked then why doesn't the United States just put up an unbreakable virus wall that can cause a virus that can completely crash the main frame of the main computer. so if they keep hacking it their main frame will crash.