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Dept. of cyberethnologica, kerlone, November 18, 2002 at 9:01:20 PM CET The Indigenous Maori of New Zealand in Cyberwar with LEGO 
The maori people, inigenous people of New Zealand, are probably using some kind of modern shamanism to defend their culture. The LEGO-Company produced some action-toys bearing some names and religious words of the maori, like Toa, Mata Nui, Pohatu, Whenua, and Tohunga. The company did already stop producing last year, after maori people protested. But now a hacker did attack a fan site, were the old names and words are still in use. But the american fans also seem to have "The Power": They hacked some maori sites. The result: The LEGO-Fan-Site is still down, the maori sites were temporally unavailable.
Spiegel (german) reports, they are assuming that in fact anti-globalisation activist around Indymedia did the attack. Stuff (english) is also reporting.
Update:And somedays after us Wired reported about the story.
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gHack, November 18, 2002 at 9:02:36 PM CET
Re: The Indigenous Maori of New Zealand in Cyberwar with LEGO
I'm not sure, but it smells like a fake of some kind. Couldn't say why, though. But my web-spider-sense is tingling. ... Link
kerlone, November 18, 2002 at 10:29:51 PM CET
Re: Re: The Indigenous Maori of New Zealand in Cyberwar with LEGO
Hmm, I don't think it's a fake. But I assume that the story is a little bit inflated. Spiegel hit's the point, if it say, it's the fight of some script-kiddies and the media-part is done by company-critical indymedia. ... Link ... Comment |
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