How are people in Syria accessing the net? If it's mostly mobile and/or ie6 then I hope this was tested on those platforms.
Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages
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#12The page is nearly unresponsive. If the idea is for the Syrian people to see it, this is an unfortunate side effect of being on the top of Reddit/HN.
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#13How are people in Syria accessing the net? If it's mostly mobile and/or ie6 then I hope this was tested on those platforms.
Well it works great on android at least.
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#14The traffic seems to have killed the site. Here's a mirror showing what it looked like when it was still responsive:
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#15The page is nearly unresponsive. If the idea is for the Syrian people to see it, this is an unfortunate side effect of being on the top of Reddit/HN.
Mirror's here: http://zone-h.org/mirror/id/14599065
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#16dear anonymous, thanks. Please do libya also. And if you could access their fire control systems, I have friends who could make use of that access.
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#17The text loads slowly. It actually freezes if you're in another tab, which IMO is a poor implementation decision; it means you actually have to sit and watch it come on the screen word by word. For those who either don't want to wait for it to load, or didn't get to it before it got taken down, here's what it says: -------------------------- To the Syrian people: The world stands with you against the brutal regime of…
i agree - you've got javascript doing both of the text animations, plus the huge graphics and scrolling images.
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#19This is a very good hack and also a reminder for Western countries and political actors that these kind of break-ins are not necessarily criminals acts but may be political demonstrations. If a break-in is non-destructive and has as motivation a political demonstration, in a democracy it should be treated as such and not be brushed aside as "criminal".
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#20Well done Anonymous. Although it may seem like an empty gesture based on what the U.S. government has (or hasn't) done.