Wednesday, March 16, 2005
HACKERS INTERRUPT COVERAGE OF "SHIAVOGATE"
Spirit Daily links this story about the webzine coverage of investigation into dirty tricks in the Shiavo case and some hackers who were successful in removing the story from the website:
June Maxam and Ginger Berlin, co-publishers of The Empire Journal, said the newspaper site was first hacked last week when a threatening message was placed on the site, directed at their coverage of the Schiavo case.
On Sunday, virtually as soon as ‘Schiavogate: The Big Cover-Up” was published, a story revealing the alleged guardianship law violations by Greer in the Schiavo case, a hacker removed the article from the site. Security measures were tightened and the article republished.
However, that didn’t stop the attacks.
On Tuesday, with the publication of several new articles relating to the Schiavo case, including an article regarding an appeal of Greer’s refusal to allow the state’s Department of Children and Families (DCF) to intervene in the Schiavo case to investigate 30 allegations of abuse, the hacker removed several Schiavo articles from the website including the Schiavogate article. A number of links to various past articles in the Schiavo archive where also removed.
The publishers are currently working with their server to restore the service and will be filing a formal complaint with law enforcement officials.
