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Colorado IMC shut down by "g00ns" |
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by IMCista
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28 Apr 2005
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April 27th the Colorado IMc website was shut down by a group of "pro-Republican " hackers calling themselves "g00ns".. |
Community Media Site Cracked The Colorado Independent Media Center provided community media services for over 5 years
(Denver, CO April 27th, 2005)
At approximately 8:20 am MST April, 27th, volunteers with Colorado Independent Media Center (CO-IMC) discovered the site, colorado.indymedia.org, 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". 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 (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 hits 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."
Colorado IMC Volunteer Tony Shawcross responded "The irony of the accusation is that the Colorado Indymedia website being attacked is an uncensored, open-source news outlet that allows any individual or group to post an article or opinion promoting any viewpoint. These people could've posted an article to get their point across and we would've posted it front-and-center."
At least two other Independent Media Centers reported today that their websites were also cracked by the same group. The Richmond, VA IMC and Arkansas IMC's websites have both also been taken off-line and all three groups are putting a call out to the global indymedia community, friends and allies who support free speech, and the general public to help them re-create their websites and protect them against future attacks.
Those interested in supporting the rebuilding efforts are encouraged to join the Rocky Mountain Indymedia mailing list by contacting RM (at) indymedia.org
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http://colorado.indymedia.org/
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Re: Colorado IMC shut down by "g00ns" |
by clorox kleener
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Current rating: 3
30 Apr 2005
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elac who is responsible. weer comin for ya.
u r a fukin brgrt who talks too much.
2 manny trails not eenuf places to hyde. |
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Re: Colorado IMC shut down by "g00ns" |
by OxyClean
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03 May 2005
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OHHHHH YEAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Swallow your own Commie Kool-Aid
Take names, Elac!
Indymedia OWN3D again! |
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Re: Colorado IMC shut down by "g00ns" |
by Right Winged Extremiest
youvebeenown3d (nospam) pwnd.com (unverified) |
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03 May 2005
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Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED
Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED
Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED
Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED
Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED
Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED
Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED Indymedia has been OWNED
-Elac
Oh yea and
RockNRev has been Exposed Again! |
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Re: Colorado IMC shut down by "g00ns" |
by CasperGhost
www.completecreations.com (nospam) gmail.com (unverified) |
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15 May 2005
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This should be all the info you will need
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/04/316482.shtml#179874
http://boulderweekly.com/coverstory.html |
