Lt. Smash is the pseudonym and weblog of a US soldier serving in the Gulf. Yesterday some folks hacked the comment section of a post which was an obituary to a fellow soldier who was killed early Sunday morning when two helicopters collided.

First, trolls started to swarm on the site leaving taunting and mostly illiterate messages, such as:

Lt, orders are not discussed, but have you ever thought whaddahell did daddy Bush and uncle Blair forget in Iraq? They want more oil, and descendants of past Presidents are to pay with their blood for their narrowmindness. Is it justice supreme? Have you found anything but a suspected chemical plant?

The saddest thing is that he sits in clean (?) White House having all he wants, while his 'onward-christian-soldiers' dig the sand searching for the pieces of late friends killed by Soviet twenty-years-ago-made missiles...

Remember, this particular post was simply a memorial to a newly dead soldier.

Then a troll set up a javascript which created popups whenever anyone opened the comments window, with messages such as STOP THE WAR and
YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!

Finally someone figured out how to fix the problem and the site is okay now.

Great way to make friends and influence people.

Posted By Judith (Kesher Talk) at March 27, 2003 02:36 AM | TrackBack