UK Police gets a taste of the medicine they were pushing to serve

31/10/2005 Written by felosi

In an arti­cle zone-​h pub­lished on 7 – 25-​05 about The Asso­ci­a­tion of Chief Police Offi­cers (ACPO) in UK ask­ing for per­mis­sion to attack ter­ror­ist web­sites and web­sites they deemed to have ille­gal or abu­sive con­tent, it was nearly obvi­ous from the start that they were refer­ring solely to Islamic ter­ror­ist sites and sites that pro­mote or con­done any ter­ror­ist activity.And this is world­wide, they were want­ing to be legally able to attack any web­site they wanted by means of ddos. SyS64738 had a pretty harsh com­ment to that arti­cle as you can see on http://​www​.zone​-​h​.org/​e​n​/​n​e​w​s​/​r​e​a​d​/​i​d​=​2​0​5957/.


Well in a recent twist of fate the ACPO’s main web­site was recently defaced by Islamic defac­ers and has been down around 3 weeks now. At the time of this arti­cle the web­site is still down. I’m not sure if this deface­ment was related to the leg­is­la­tion they were try­ing to pass or if they had actu­ally been attack­ing web­sites but they must surely see the irony in this. You can see the deface­ment at http://​www​.zone​-​h​.org/​d​e​f​a​c​e​m​e​n​t​s​/​m​i​r​r​o​r​/​i​d​=​2​9​4​1951/ The link to the
ACPO’s offline web­site is http://​www​.acpo​.police​.uk/​i​n​d​e​x.htm.

Google’s cache comes in handy to show us how ACPO’s web­site looked like just before the deface­ment:


http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:NIoceAScWCMJ:www.acpo.police.uk


UPDATE: 15 min­utes after we posted this news, the web­site has been restored

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