The LoU-China-Iraq War Histograph
Below is an attempt to chronicle the events in the LoU-China-Iraq War. We
have made every attempt to be accruate. If you have corrections to be made
please send us mail.
October 26, 1998
In an attempt to polish its tarnished human-rights image China launches a
web site to give their perspective on the issue.
Wired
October 27, 1998
Legions of the Underground defaces the Chinese human rights web site
that went online the day before.
Wired
www.humanrights-china.org
HNN Archive of
Defaced Page
HNN Archive for October 28,
1998
December 1, 1998
Bronc Buster, a member of the Legions of the Underground, attacks
China's network firewalls.
HNN Archive for December 1,
1998
Wired
December 4, 1998
China charges a software dealer with subversion after supplying western
dissidents with 30,000 email address.
Wired
December 28, 1998
Two Chinese crackers are sentaced to death after cracking a bank computer
and wiring 720,000 yaun in non-existant money to their own bank
accounts.
CNN
Wired
December 28, 1998
In an IRC press conferance Legions of the Underground declares war on
China and Iraq. They call for the complete destruction of all computer
systems in both countries. HNN is first to report on the story the
following morning
HNN Archive for December 29,
1998
Edited transcript of IRC
Press Conferance
Wired
The
Standard Online - Austria
National
Post - Canada
January 5, 1999
Team spl0it joins the Legions of the Underground in their War against
China and Iraq.
HNN Archive for January 5, 1999
January 6, 1999
Legions of the Underground releases a statement contridicting
their earlier statements that claims that they never had destructive
intentions and blame the media for letting this get out of hand.
HNN Archive for January 6,
1999
LoU Statement
January 7, 1999
An unprecedented joint statement and press release from every major
hacking group in the world is released condeming the Legions of the
Underground and their Declaration of War.
HNN Archive for January 7,
1999
Joint Statement
Joint Press
Release
January 8, 1999
Incredible support is seen across the internet for the Joint Statement
released by the International Hacker Coalition.
The Legions of the Underground release a statement in responce to the
international coalition.
HNN Archive for January 8,
1999
Statement from Legions of
the Underground
January 11, 1999
The Chinese web site promoting human-rights is cracked again. It is
unknown who cracked the site this time.
http://www.humanrights-china.org
Archive of defaced
site
January 13, 1999
The Legions of the Underground tell Wired magazine that the original
press conferance was a fake and that the people present during the press
conferance were spoofed. There is no evidence to support this but there
is none to deny it either.
Wired
January 17, 1999
Several news orginisations from around the world pick up the story.
MSNBC
Spiegel Online - German
AP Wire - German
Kitetoa
- French
Februaury 9, 1999
The Legions of the Underground open a website offering web hosting and
security consulting services.
HNN Archive for February 9, 1999
July 23, 1999
Optiklenz (Steve Stakton) issues a statement concerning the hole 'war'
and the current state of .gov and .mil web page defacements.
Statement
We will attempt to keep this file updated as events progress.
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