My online conversation with a hacker

American icons
Originally uploaded by Today is a good day.

This image made me a target for extreme Islamic hacking! Not me alone, but me as one of many on Flickr who posted images that were seen to be glorifying the USA.

I got a message from a legitimate (but hacked) account inviting me to look at similar shots hosted by Flickr's new download tool. Of course there was no such tool - and the link directed me to a phishing page and a link to download an executable package. Uh oh!!!

So I sent an email to the account that left the message to whinge a bit! I got a reply straight back from the hacker himself- who was still logged onto the hacked account! Quite interesting!! He (she?) was from a group claiming to be the Moroccan Islamic Hackers Front (or something like that) and he seemed to think that because I'd posted a very American image I must be supporting the war in Iraq! Of course the fact that I was fervently against this from the outset was a model that he couldn't get his head around. After a couple more exchanges - during which I expressed that I was a tad pissed off - he said "so what?" and that "they'd" never catch him and that was that!!