whistler’s blog

Just today one of my friends sites got defaced by someone, the page the guy left on the server was quite surprising it had a msn messenger contact email given and whats more it started with the name of Allah and asked to go to an Islamic site al-sunnah.com. Now all the hackers out there would be whining that these script kiddies give them a bad name but this one is doing the same for Muslim’s and even his country KSA was mentioned on the page!

Taking a look at the html source of the page quickly revealed that it was made in frontpage, a windows user. The page even had a animation script from dynamicdrive.com, which for some reason did not render on firefox. Googling the provided email i found there were more sites which had the same fate as my friend’s. Most of the sites had been changed back to something else but google’s cache contained the defaced version. The sites seemed quite random, this dude named Arsalan must have got some exploit script from the net and would be feeling very proud being able to use it. What a loser!

Die slow outside Area 51

Originally uploaded by whistl3r.

‘r’ and ‘v’ of the drive slow sign missing, picture taken outsite area 51, not the military base with aliens but a bowling alley in Karachi. Very amusing, whoever did that. The sign is not like this anymore someone wrote r and v again.

My interest in photography is nothing new, but my gallery at flickr is! I wanted to put a gallery on this site but was facing problems with drupal. So i decided to use flickr to host my photos instead, which is much better than running your own script to manage photo’s.

I’ve put many old and new snaps that I have taken, even got some positive response, I never checked before that someone had commented on my snaps. I’m even thinking of upgrading my flickr account but its useless until I get a better internet connection and better photography skills.