The intentions of hackers vary, so I guess it's a case of one man's meat being another's poison, hypothetically speaking for country that prides itself as the perfect investment destination, the UIA website is a better platform to advocate such an environmental cause than a blog that you have to struggle to direct traffic to, again hypothetically speaking,
To be noted though, sometimes vulnerability warnings have filtered through on some UG mailing lists but the concerned have not taken action, sometime back either here or on I-Network the vulnerabilities of the parliamentary website were mentioned but... How Anonymous hacked HBGary was highly illuminating though :) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/02/anonymous-speaks-the-inside-story-of-the-hbgary-hack.ars/1 Cheers On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:36 PM, Mike Barnard <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On 16 August 2011 15:36, G.Y. Mukalazi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> they hack for Good it shld be on the other websites too >> >> > I find it a little childish for such expression of views. Get a blog or > start a group on Google+ or your favourite social media site, but defacing > ones website? nah... that is naive. > > A good hack is one where I get in, document what I did to get it, expose a > vulnerability, suggest how to plug it... that is a good hack. This is at the > very least... > > > -- > Mike > > Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in a > million chances happen 99% of the time. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > > Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > [email protected] > Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > > The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in > any way. > -- /Daniel
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