Nation of Islam site defaced
The Nation Of Islam's Internet home page was defaced within two days after the Million Man March.
A hacker electronically broke into the Internet site and peppered it with cyber-graffiti files.
The page opened with its Netscape browser title changed to "The Bigots Of Islam HOmeb0y pAg3!@#."
On the page itself, the opening read, "In the name of some goofy god that does not exist! @#.' The site continued with previous welcome message of "As-Salaam Alaikum (Peace be unto you)," defaced by another set of parentheses: "(As if we really belive that)" (sic).
A source at Object Oriented Information Systems (02IS), the Internet consulting company that runs Afrinet Central, home of the Nation of Islam page, said Nation of Islam staffers alerted 02IS to the break-in two days after the march. The source added that the company is working on its computer security to prevent future attacks.
The Cambridge, Mass.-based company had taken Nation's Home Page off the Internet while it eliminated the hacker files. The site, which includes speeches by Minister Louis Farrakhan, resumed at the same address, http://www.afrinet.net/~islam/
Timothy K. Maloy, The Internet Newsroom, editors@DGS.dgsys.com