Dear Saddam, How can I help?

October 28, 2002 11:38 AM

Dear Saddam, How can I help? Whadya need? Weapons? Network capabilities?
posted by Raichle (8 comments total)

The e-mails sent to [Saddam Hussein at] [e-mail] were obtained earlier this month by first clicking on a link labeled "Check your e-mail in Uruk" on the homepage of Iraq's state-controlled ISP, Uruklink.net, then guessing the login name and password -- both of which were the same five-letter word.

Ha!

(for convenience, the first page of the article)
posted by gleuschk at 11:43 AM on October 28, 2002

What I don't like is nowhere in the article does it say who hacked the account nor what they did with the info after it was available.. Did they give it to the feds? Were they even American?
posted by dirtylittlemonkey at 11:54 AM on October 28, 2002

Thanks for the link, gleuschk. (I thought that was an odd way to start an article.)
posted by originalname37 at 11:57 AM on October 28, 2002

Yeah, so how *did* they get the info?
posted by Espoo2 at 2:09 PM on October 28, 2002

oops, sorry guys I must have linked to the wrong page!
posted by Raichle at 2:54 PM on October 28, 2002

A fluffy story (the titillation of reading a dictator's email) born of unprinicpled investigation (some l33t h4x0r has a new claim to fame).
posted by elphTeq at 3:10 PM on October 28, 2002

Very confusing.
posted by hama7 at 3:21 PM on October 28, 2002

the login name and password -- both of which were the same five-letter word.
Lemme see, erm, Sadam. Or BadUS. Nukes. vxgas. France? Or just plain press?
posted by thijsk at 1:32 AM on October 29, 2002