February 23, 2007

Daniel Pipes' Mad Hacking Skillz

I've always knows that Daniel Pipes had skillz. You know, like nunchuck skills, bowhunting skills, and I hear that like a butt-load of gangs wanted him to join because he's pretty good with the bow staff. But I never, not in my wildest dreams, suspected he had mad hacking skillz!*

So, who hacked Imam Musa's MySpace website? Some islamist message boards are blaming Daniel Pipes, Robert Spencer & ......drumroll please...me. Just check out Robert's post here, and you'll see that the second link posted over at Shia Chat claiming we boasted about hacking the site is to my post on Imam Musa here.

If you read what the Islamists are saying you'll also notice that they accuse Daniel Pipes of Greenwaldian sock puppetry. They say Robert is Pinnochio and Pipes Geppetto.

And it hurts. Really it does. Because if anyone is playing Kevin to Daniel Pipes' Mephisto, it's me, not Robert!

What is so funny is that while accusing Daniel Pipes of hacking Imam Musa's website and simultaneously linking my post about it, they totally overlook the fact that I actually name the party responsible. I know who did it. Because minutes after Imam Musa's MySpace page was taken down, he e-mailed me letting me know that he had taken over the account name. He goes by the initials DJM. CORRECTION: Super-sikret source says DJM is a SHE.

So, in fact, Imam Musa's website wasn't exactly "hacked" in the traditional sense of the word. What really seems to have happened is that after a few prominent websites--including The Jawa Report, Robert Spencer's Jihad Watch, and Charles Johnson's LGF--exposed his pro-terrorist propaganda at his MySpace account, Imam Musa deleted the account himself. These pro-terrorist scumbags can't stand the exposure, it seems.

What DJM did was to simply create a MySpace account in the name of the now vacated Imam Musa. The graphic you see to the right is something he left for the good Imam's followers.

So, even though I'd love to claim hacking Imam Musa's account, it just isn't true. But never fear, for there are still tens of thousands of other pro-terror websites to hack. And with each day, my hacking skillz improve.

*I wish I had actually thought of the idea of saying Daniel Pipes had "mad hacking skillz", but it was actually Robert Spencer who jokingly used the term in an e-mail to me. See, I can't even come up with a funny phrase let alone hack MySpace. Hat tip: Bobby.