Is it illegal to hack websites? - Dallas-Mavs.com Forums

dude1394 · 08-01-2008, 10:00 PM

Just curious...folks trying to mess with some bloggers need to be careful as they are usually pretty astute about tracking down the perpetrators. Ths guy for example claims he was hacked by pro obama websites. For the ip geeks on the board.

1. Can this guy actually track this down?
2. Is it illegal to hack a site like this person references?
http://macsmind.com/wordpress/2008/0...acking-update/

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Macsmind Hacking UPDATE
02 Aug

Confederate Yankee notes further possible examples by Obama supporters getting Google to suspend sites for “Terms of Service” violations.

Instapundit tries to douse the theories, but here is one fact that can’t be explained away.

On July 22-25 Macsmind was DOS’d (Denial of Service) that originated from three IP addresses that are assigned to Barack Obama’s website. This isn’t a theory but was confirmed via law enforcement through an inspection of the site logs from those dates. The IP address in question; 66.39.4.254 66.39.143.229 216.146.206.181, are all registered via “Go Daddy” under the name barackobama.com.

On those dates, beginning at At 5:48PM Central on the 22nd, the hosted server that contained our site was hit by a 1.6 gigabyte flood of illegitimate traffic. The attacks never abated and only stopped when our host provider took us off line.

Speculation is one thing, but facts are another. This time however we’ve taken protective measures to prevent this from happening again. Additionally the investigation will continue and appropriate interstate authorities have been notified.

chumdawg · 08-01-2008, 10:44 PM

When I click on your link, I get an error message that says IE can't open the site.

dude1394 · 08-01-2008, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by chumdawg

When I click on your link, I get an error message that says IE can't open the site.

Really...I got it also with IE. Opened okay with firefox. A comment from the site

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Mac, I am currently getting the “cannot open this internet site” warning on a number of blogs; you, Gateway Pundit, Michelle Malking, Atlas Shrugged and a couple of ohers. Josuha over at Gateway Pundit said it just started happening to him. But the warning does not come up over at DailyKos.

Over at Michelle Malkin’s you can’t link on to any previous post of her (the ones at the right hand sidebar). It will go to “cannot locate this website”.

What the hell is going on? Is someone hacking a bunch of conservative bloggers?