Hacking Boycott
Matéria do globeandmail.com informa sobre ataque de hackers contra revista francesa que faz enquete sobre se a França deve ou não boicotar as Olimpíadas de Pequim. 20000 responderam e 80% é a favor…Trechos:
“Hackers attacked the website of a French magazine this month, attempting to sway an opinion poll on the Beijing Olympics and change the site’s content, its publisher said on Wednesday.
Jean-Joel Gurviez said the website of business magazine Capital was first hit in March, when it opened a poll on whether France should boycott the Games’ opening ceremony in China.
‘On the first day, we had about 300 responses, which was normal for this type of poll, and they were 80 per cent in favour of a boycott. The next day there were 20,000 responses, with 80 per cent opposing a boycott,’ he said.
Almost all of the responses arrived via Chinese servers, Gurviez said, leading technicians to initially think the influx was driven by Chinese sites directing patriotic fans to vote.
‘But a few days later we had hackers operating off servers in China try to change our content, and there were 2.5 million attempts to access protected files. We had to shut down the site temporarily,’ he said.
Internet users in China have flooded the Web with patriotic commentary in the run-up to the August games, and criticised France for not properly protecting the Paris leg of the Olympic torch relay from human rights protesters.(…)”