It doesnt take a 'skilled hacker' much effort to use the tools others have released. I cant imagine the author's blog being hacked as anything more than mere button pushing. A 'script kiddy' really.

I agree. But still interesting why he does it.

I think that the 'why' looses it intrigue when you consider that there is little done to convey their purpose to anyone other than 1)the pissed off blog owner and 2)their competing frienemies and script kiddies...

"... we do this to protest against somethings, for example the last month I think there was a genocide agains the Uygurs in the west of China and we just hacked around one thousand websites of the chinesse government. Our web page is: www.ayyildiz.org..."

It seems more is said in this short interview about their supposed 'moral motivations' and logic for these attacks than the attacks themselves actually conveyed.

To make a real stance against something, wouldn't it prove far more beneficial to compose a multi language (Translate) well thought out argument instead of posting a few Turkish sentences and a flag Gif as a protest? A few lines of CSS and javascript to actually provide usable reference and material to viewers about what it is you feel strongly enough about to actually hack another's property over?

I feel like this type of hack is more of a <i>"I'm a rebel (because I am a kid) and am going to tag this bridge because I have a can of paint and no one is there to catch me doing it - I'm a protester because I tagged it 'Pigs suck!'"</i>

But again, in my day when 16 year olds where 'acting out against society' with netbus and BackOrifice on my school pcs

For me its another example for how the term "hacker" is being wrongly generalized and how easy its to claim to be one.

The first line of your comment is pretty insightful. The rest, not so much. It seems you've fallen victim to exactly what you're criticizing.

Because defacing a website is the same as stealing or tattooing someone's face.

Nice moral balance you have there.

well no, but 50,000 websites...

The guy who got "hacked" (see colbyolson's post) couldn't keep his bias out of the conversation, ruined it for me. That and the guy comparing changing the page of a blog to stealing.

There could have been a lot more interesting questions asked.

Considering the situation, a crime victim interviewing the perp, I thought he was quite effective at eliciting feedback. I suppose it's not surprising this 17 year old has the ethics of a sociopath. When I read he wants to become a broker, LOL.

Yeah, sorry, this isn't a rape victim or someone who was mugged. A few lines of code got changed in a website that didn't (easily) update their plugins.

The 17 year old was being a 17 year old.

The defacing/rooting hackers are always the young and bright ones it seems. It's fun to watch how the trend continues over the years, and has spread to all corners of the world.

Would have been a lot more interesting if he had actually gained root and explained how he pulled that off.

What's interesting is all the comments on that blog, saying how someone who can download an automatic deface script "can make money with websites". I thought the general public had a better understanding of the Internet these days :)