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The Moron's Hack
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 What happens when retards phreak? You get a moron's hack. Really. What's a moron's hack? Basically, some idiot with a PC hijacking a website sans any programming pizzazz.Two examples: In 1998, www.armyinkashmir.com was supposedly hacked and defaced by Paki crackers. What they simply did was to write to the domain registrar on a Friday evening and the registrar sent out the usual email and took non-response as a "yes" and transferred the domain. And, voila! the site had been hacked. Of course, whoever was to man and maintain the site at the Ministry of Defence didn't work weekends (or ever) and the hack was discovered the next Monday. But only after having been splashed across newspapers. But morons come in a variety of IQ levels. In late 2000, another Paki cracker did all the hard work of cracking into what he thought was a major Indian satellite channel's homepage. So, he went ahead and pillaged www.zeetv.com. PR coup? No way, for Zee Television has nothing to do with this particular domain. What actually happened was that some cybersquatter got his just desserts. Just to prove that morons are alive and well one either side of the border, in late 2000, one True Indian retaliated. In style and should be crowned the new Sub-Moron of Hacking. He had "hacked" the "official" Pakistani website, www.pakgov.org. Cool wasn't it? Cool enough to leave you cold. Because all our imaginative friend did for his 15 minutes of infamy was to register the domain on December 14. Then he Frontpaged some gifs from the actual Paki site, www.pak.gov.pk, and got some gullible newsgroups buzzing. And, wow! the cyber community went gaga, literally. The guy also has either an impish sense of humour or is a True Moron because the WhoIs lookup shows that the domain's registered in the name of one Parveez Mushraff. We'll settle for the second possibility, because of what came next. He decided to go one ahead, posing as the gunslinger on the Wild Wild Web, while shooting blanks. He then registered www.lakshar-e-toiba.org in the name of a certain Osama bin Laden. Again, the hack got some publicity and hallelujahs. Of course, our Sub Moron aka True.Indian got some technobbable going to try and substantiate his hollow exploits. What that gibberish, however, did not camouflage was the face that this guy was just trying to hard to gain some thrills from a feat he could never achieve. And, that he has too much time on his hands and is either unemployed or unemployable. Or that he is a 3-year-old with the intelligence level of a somewhat backward jellyfish, in which case, he can be excused. But, to return to the crux of the issue. Cyber-chauvinism is thriving online. And kicking up quite a ruckus. Most Indians will probably wonder why our supposedly brilliant programmers and developers can't strike back at Paki sites and score some points for the good ol' motherland. Why can't they create their own propaganda buzz? The answer is pretty simple. They're soo busy creating wealth, giving even a limp NASDAQ some cheer. ruling Silicon Valley, charting the course of the Internet and software and turning India into an IT superpower. Unlike True.Indian whose major kick in life must be to sit at home and twiddle his thumbs a thousand different ways. RECENTLY ON JAAL: Miss Whirl Chatterbox 6 Chatterbox 5 Chatterbox 4 Chatterbox 3 Chatterbox 2 Chatterbox 1 Cloud Nine The Son Always Shines Glam Slam Autonomy Retort The Sri Lankan Mulberry Bush Take The Green Quiz A Tiger By The Tail 1000000000+ Chandrachud Rereported The Second Coming Of Bill Are You A Bollywood Buff? SEND US YOUR FEEDBACK ABOUT THIS ARTICLE:
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