Delinquent hackers target games site

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15008.html

By: Tim Richardson
Posted: 27/11/2000 at 11:42 GMT

Games developer Microprose - famous for such simulation titles as
GrandPrix 3 - has had its Web site defaced

The Delinquent Hacking Organisation (dhc) - which already boasts some
390 scalps - has claimed responsibility for the act of vandalism.

Curiously, instead of marking their effort with a grotesque picture or
some inexplicable gibberish, the delinquents attempted a more literary
sign-off, leaving behind this tale of angst.

I LAY DOWN.

I lay down and cry,
today I'd like to die.
My feelings weren't hurt,
but they're already always in the dirt.

I never thought I could feel this way,
and now I'm here, I don't know what to say.
Winding roads leading me to the same place,
its What to do in my case.

I feel like I'll never be enough,
not enough me, not enough stuff.
I feel self-centered, and fat,
I'm actually skinny, but the mind is tough.

Running away never works they say.

Microprose.com was bought by Hasbro Interactive some 18 months ago and
is now one of the company's key brands.

A spokeswoman for Hasbro told The Reg: "I don't know how long it's
been like this - we only found out about it this morning."

We can help Kieren McCarthy writes. For three days, the site featured
nothing but a blue screen and poem by hacker DHC (with a Firefly pen
name?). Obviously, the tech-heads are unavailable at weekends.

We saw the hacked site while looking through Attrition on Friday for a
different hack and felt it best not to overdo matters. However, seeing
as the company was unable to sort it out until past lunchtime today,
we've had a number of readers pointing it out to us. Most, it must be
said, were interested by the poetry.

Is this a new movement? Do we have sensitive, creative hackers in our
midsts? Is the hacker the modern artist? Well, judging from the poem,
no. There is obviously a tortured soul out there, but poetry ain't his
forte.

What's more, he didn't manage to get the whole poem out. No, you need
to go to a different hack the day before for that. Dominio Internet
ran the whole text. But hang on, our budding Byron, is at it again. On
Saturday, he hacked the California Department of Transportation, where
he showcased his latest creation entitled Tomorrow. His standard
hadn't slipped. But then neither had it risen.

We are considering sending them to an English professor (or perhaps a
child psychologist) to see what can be made of them.

Still, at least poetry is a step up from "Fuk U KC!!!!! i'M tHe
gReATest" stuff we normally see

[DOT defacement:
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/11/25/www.dot.ca.gov/

Microprose defacement:
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/11/24/www.microprose.com/

Whole poem in a defacement...
http://www.attrition.org/mirror/attrition/2000/11/23/www.anisn.it/ ]

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