Middle America's Worldview

I have always been fascinated with the hacker community. You have your white hat hackers that live only to learn, understand and report their security findings. Then you have your black hat hackers that utilize those same found insecurities for their own gain.

Michelle Malkin has a very interesting post regarding Islamic hack attacks on the net. I shouldn't really be surprised considering there is a increasing war cry physically. Now it's becoming obvious a digital war is occuring.

Considering the continued issue of identity theft (new Harrison Ford movie, Firewall coming out on the same subject) on the rise, this takes the Jihad in a whole new realm.

There have always been a net turf war since the boom of the web. Personally I recall when the web was only in text mode, using Delphi to gain access. Now you have a broad range of scripts, html, xhtml, graphic, java, ror, IM's, to utilize.

Once I read Michelle's blog, I had to do a search on this same issue. I found the following links below. Interesting to say the least.

Almost 1,000 Danish websites have been defaced by Islamic hackers ...

Muslim hackers blast Denmark in Net assault

Anti-cartoon protests go online

Will Malaysia Emerge as a Pro-al Qaeda Cyber Terrorist Haven?

It has always been thought you are faceless in the digital realm. Your handle was your identity. At least that was back then when I use to cruise the IRC's ect. I haven't been online chatting in a long time, due to no time to randomly surf anymore. I wouldn't really call them "Muslim" hackers. They are simply black hat hackers. But then again, I haven't been in that scene in quite awhile.