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August 12, 2002
Al-Qaida's website was hacked, with the use of tools like Snapback (for domain registration), whois and traceroute, as well as an online translator.

The hacker, John Messner, knew Al-Qaida was operating as "Al Neda" in Kuala Lumpur. Before Al-Qaida could change its registration to India, Messner used Snapback to transfer ownership of the site to himself. He put a copy of Al-Qaida's site on the server, so terrorists didn't notice the move for 5 days.

During this time, he traced all Al-Qaida-related terrorist websites. Messner then replaced the site's content with a US Great Seal. On the original article, you can learn about how Messner tracked the terrorists and how hard it was to convince the FBI he was right.

http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,54455,00.html

that is [censored] awesome, im really impressed. <img border="0" alt="[Sheep]" title="" src="graemlins/sheep.gif" />

too bad he didnt get in touch with the FBI sooner

i was wondering how you people hack into [censored]
i cant even write a program want to give me some tips

No.

nope, sorry.... just fries :x

budwurm;

If you can't even write a simple program, you except us to teach you how to hack? -or- if you want to learn how to write a program, you can search the internet.

budwurm = duh *lol*