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Wednesday 19 June  

Wilders website hacked

Published on 23 September 2011 - 2:53pm
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Geert Wilders’ website has been hacked. A photograph of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan was placed on the site by a hacker calling himself ‘Septemb0x’ and describing himself as a ‘Turkish Muslim hacker’.

The Freedom Party leader announced himself that the site had been hacked, but it’s not known what action he has taken, if any.

On Thursday Mr Wilders ended up in a shouting match with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte over the phrase de aap komt uit de mouw which literally means ‘the monkey comes out of the sleeve’ and is the Dutch equivalent of ‘the cat is out of the bag’.

The prime minister objected to Wilders' remark that “the Islamic monkey is coming out of the sleeve and his name is Erdogan” and told him to “act normally”.

The hacker referred back to the ‘monkey’ comment with the message: “You may have Apes. We came from the soil!”

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Anonymous 24 September 2011 - 2:52am / holland

This thing was caused by two simple facts.

  1. The self proclaimed hacker* hasn't got a clue ( like many turks in holland ) about common dutch phrases.
  2. The cut version of the debate between wilders and prime minister Rutte aired on every dutch news station. The small outtake of the discussion that aired all evening/night was cut very much discrediting Wilders painting a prejudiced picture of the full story.

Now the combination of turks not understanding our phrases (eventhough some of them were born here) and the debate clipped in such a way it does nothing but discredit wilders lead to some of them hunting wilders' site for a leak ( which wasnt too hard since it was an unupdated joomla install loaded with plug ins written by hobbyists ).

The site is back up and running now, and as i've noticed its still using joomla ( hope they've upgraded and stripped it this time ).

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