DUP website embraces Irish language (ie, hacked)

The DUP website was briefly hacked tonight before being taken offline. Soon after, PeterRobinson.org and JeffreyDonaldson.org were given a similar makeover. For anyone needing translation of the (most likely criminal) defacement of their homepages, the message reads Irish Now. My name is Peter Robinson and I supported the Irish Language Act. A country without a language, is a country without a soul. Going by the name Hector Ó Hackatdawn and describing himself as “a computer science graduate, Irish language activist, …

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Rogue pages on Antrim Council’s site…

Not sure how Antrim Borough Council acquired this page… Perhaps they’ve fallen on ‘hard’ times… [Yuk… ed] H/T Jason… Update: As Nevin notes below, there are loads of them, just fiddle with the numbers at the end of the URL…. Screen shot added to the left, for posterity… Update to the update: Ah, all fixed now… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and …

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