Michelle Malkin: THE ISLAMISTS' WAR ON THE INTERNET

By Aussiegirl

Well, as you might have anticipated, the Moslem hacking of websites has begun. Here's Michelle Malkin's top story for today, with several links to other hacking stories, among them this top-posted story from The Counterterrorism Blog, from which she quotes this alarming thought by one reader:The outstanding question is law enforcement response to Islamist "hack-tivists" defacing or otherwise compromising non-critical websites. Again, considered in isolation, defacing a women's motorcycle club website for a day or two is an aggravation but not a threat to society. Considered in aggregate, however, defacing and compromising thousands of webpages is a dangerous pattern, a sure sign of probes preliminary to a coordinated attack of potentially massive proportions.

Michelle Malkin: THE ISLAMISTS' WAR ON THE INTERNET

Last Tuesday, during or immediately after my appearance on Fox News Channel to discuss the Mohammed Cartoons, this blog was hit by a large, foreign-based denial of service attack. Last night, my hosting service notified me that it is receiving ongoing threats from individuals vowing to take down this site--and others along with it--which will presumably continue until I take down the cartoons. For now, we are on guard and continuing with business as usual. But you should know there's something much wider and deeper going on.