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British Unionist party website hacked.. as Gaeilge

  • 07-06-2011 1:32am
    #1
    Cathaoirleach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭


    Screen grab

    It's still live: http://www.tuv.org.uk/
    But why would a hacker use POPUPS!
    The website of irredentist British Unionist party the Traditional Unionost Voice (or TUV), was hacked earlier today by Irish language activist Hector O’Hackatdawn, in yet another call for equality under the law between the Irish and English language speaking communities in the North of Ireland. The TUV, political hobby-horse of ‘Kick da Pope’ Unionist rabble-rouser Jim Allister, has long been a proponent of continued language intolerance in the North and continues to rail against the slow slide of the wee Six into a United Ireland.

    The hack consisted of a simple pop-up window calling for an Irish Language Act to be introduced into the North of Ireland, thereby overturning centuries of British legislative discrimination.

    http://ansionnachfionn.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/the-tuv-goes-irish-thanks-to-hector-ohackatdawn/


Comments

  • #2
    Rothmans
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭Rothmans


    Jesus, when I started watching the video on their website I didn't know whether they were being serious or just taking the p!ss.

    At 2.21 on the video it says 'Education RUANED'. I assume that that's just meant to be 'Education ruined', just spelt in an Northern Irish accent :confused:


  • #3
    brimal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭brimal


    Strange choice to use a popup. Most browsers these days block them automatically.


  • #4
    Cathaoirleach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 701 ✭✭✭Cathaoirleach


    brimal wrote: »
    Strange choice to use a popup. Most browsers these days block them automatically.

    Yeah, I know. He could have done a simple jQuery popup instead.

    The hacker's Twitter is here if you want to ask him. http://twitter.com/#!/HectorOHackAtD


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