Iraq phone system hacked?
Can’t verify this but it’s interesting if true:
Glenn Reynolds:
“Salam Pax” is a pseudonymous blogger from Baghdad. He’s been
blogging for a while, and he seems to be genuine — people who
know the area have had a lot of correspondence with him and
think so. Here’s what he
reports:A quick run thru what is going on in Baghdad before
uncles and aunts flood the house. The juiciest bit of
news actually happened about a week ago but I was told
about it today. A couple of days ago it was rumored
that all top officials had their phone numbers changed,
well who cares it’s not like I call Saddam every night
to chat, but today a friend explained why. Around six
days ago the phone lines of the Iraqi air defense units
were “attacked”. When you picked up the phone in some
of the command units you didn’t get a dial tone but a
male voice speaking in broken Arabic. What it said is
close to what the infamous email said, don’t use
chemical or biological weapons, don’t offer resistance,
and don’t obey commands to attack civilian areas and so
on. This went on for a couple of hours. Now everyone
has new numbers. I have no idea how that is at all
possible. I do know that for some rural areas we use
microwave signals for phone connections but they can’t
be so stupid as to use it for military purposes.
Way to go uncle Sam. This is going to make one hell of
a James Bond movie.
