Monday, 31. March 2003
Topic: W A R - on March 31, 2003 at 7:55:43 PM CEST
Hack attack on Al-Jazeera raises questions
Someone made hacker history by knocking out Aljazeera.net, the Arabic satellite news channel's Web site, for most of last week. No one has ever sustained a crippling attack against a big Web site for so long.
The timing and scale of the assault fueled speculation that pro-U.S. tech vigilantes pulled off a cybercoup: derailing Al-Jazeera, a rising media outlet, just as it was moving to extend its pro-Islamic news coverage to a wider audience.
But the cyber warriors also frustrated hundreds of thousands of news-hungry computer users accustomed to checking out diverse viewpoints online.
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