The Iraq Satellite Channel affair
The Iraqi Internet infrastructure has been set up with scant attention to efficiency and security. This is amply demonstrated by what happened to the Web site of the Iraq Satellite Channel, Iraq's international TV service. On 18 February 2003, a routine check by Media Network showed that the site appeared to have been hacked. During 2002, we had been able to watch the channel in streaming video at
www.iraqtv.ws. But we were surprised to find that the content had been replaced by a Christian fundamentalist message (see screenshot on right).
Media Network's Lou Josephs and Sheila Lennon of the Providence Journal managed to track down the person responsible, American James Poole. It turns out that he had discovered the domain registration had expired, and a quick piece of thinking allowed him to reregister it.
aha.. so ist das also..
