Lully, from Reflexiones al Desnudo, a renowned Colombian blog which has been featured in BlogsColombia as “best blog,” had her blog hijacked and sabotaged this past weekend and it has now disappeared.
Where you could previously read well written memoirs and stories with an erotic tint, a message appeared stating that the blog was closed due to its pornographic content which could affect small children browsing the internet.
The badly spelled note also went on to threaten any other blogs found defending leftist terrorism and opposing Jaime Ruiz, a writer for País Bizarro (Bizarre Country). Similar notes have been left behind other on destroyed blogs. These attacks are signed Jaime Ruiz and link to his website, a right wing blog that discusses Colombian events and politics.
Some authors from equinoXio, an online magazine which Lully co-founded and where she writes a column, have reacted. Sentido Común (Common Sense) writes:
Las bitácoras Reflexiones al desnudo, Rock & Alcohol y Hack al desnudo tienen al menos dos cosas en común: que todas usan en su nombre palabras de aquellas que algunos filtros de contenido censuran automáticamente, y que los tres blogs, alojados todos en Blogger.com, han sido saboteados por un anónimo, como corresponde, cuyo coeficiente intelectual a duras penas le alcanza para algo tan elemental, como es destruir…
The author also takes care to clarify:
“Hoy, las primeras reacciones de los cibernautas frente al suceso en comento hacen evidente el uso inapropiado del término “hacker”, pues nos encontramos ante un caso claro de vandalismo, rayando en terrorismo virtual. El nombre correcto para este tipo de delincuente es “craker”.
Also at equinoXio, Marsares posts:
Ahora, llama la atención que se busca culpar burdamente del ataque a un adversario de equinoXio con quien tenemos divergencias ideológicas. Se trata de Jaime Ruiz, a quien el subhumano coloca firmando el manifiesto moralista que justifica su acción. Por fortuna, su calumnia no ha hecho carrera y los bloggers,equinoXio entre ellos, rechazamos este torpe señalamiento.
País Bizarro and its supporters have reacted to these attacks as well:
Diegoeth writes in Blogosfera Antológica:
Desde aquí invitamos a toda la comunidad de bloggers (se sentirá excluido el hacker) a iniciar una campaña pidiendo a Blogger.com que publique toda la información de accesos al blog de Reflexiones al Desnudo relacionadas con el ataque. Aunque sabotear un blog no es nada fácil (hace rato que País Bizarro hubiera sido saboteado por el mismo personaje), no todos los usuarios saben protegerse de manos criminales y es importante que desde ahora mismo vayamos desenmascarando a los delincuentes que sencillamente no toleran que haya un puñadito de blogs dedicados a criticar a la izquierda colombiana y que están dispuestos a sabotear un blog amigo sólo para tratar de enemistar a su dueña con el objeto de su odio enfermizo.
Jaime Ruiz, whose name is the one which appears as the signature of these attacks, comments on the previous post:
Lo de firmar con mi nombre tiene éxito en un principio con gente que no lee País Bizarro, pero después ya no lo cree nadie. Es tan absurdo (en cualquier persona, sobre todo en una que escribe un blog) que quien lo hizo tiene que tener una mente más bien infantil. Y algún agravio con Lully. No se va destruyendo una página así sólo por sembrar una calumnia sin sentido. Es curioso, porque ella siempre ha sido muy dulce con nosotros. Sin algún rencor contra ella el que lo hizo habría hecho su gracia en algún blog hostil.
Lully´s posts are currently being recovered using google cache. She continues to write her column in equinoXio magazine. This attack has echoed around the Colombian Blogosphere:
Álvaro Ramírez Ospina from Ojo al Texto has suggested that the tag “apoyoBlogger” be attached to any post regarding these events, so that bloggers can remain updated. He also suggested several strategies to protect oneself from blogger attacks. Mauricio Duque Arrubla from En Medio del Ruido expands on Álvaro Ramírez’ advice on how to protect blogs from these cracker attacks, or at least have a plan B in case it happens. Velvet from piso tres links to Victor Solano´s blog and his “blogger manifesto”.
Other blogs attacked in this unprecedented wave are:
http://memoria-de-una-desmemoriada.blogspot.com/
http://rockandalcohol.blogspot.com/
http://nohagonada.blogspot.com/
http://walkerinthedarkness.blogspot.com/
I hope these bloggers get back on their feet quickly and continue with their blogs soon.
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I found this text to be even and fair, and even well informed, but by no means complete. But the reason is perhaps that a lot more has happened since then, so I am the one that is unfair here. I am not only talking about the second set of blog sabotages, but about the reactions to the first.
The reactions to the attacks tell us a lot about the mentalities of the people from the colombian blogosphere (it has to be said that it does not rerpesent the whole colombian population, but rather that of an elite). The most popular reaction was to adhere to the mentioned manifesto, and the most popular explanation to account for it was to blame it on an ideological dirty war. I think that, to some degree, both are wrong. I wrote a criticism about the manifesto, where I emphatize on the personal and light nature of the weblogs.
The supposed ideological dirty war that is going on in the blogsphere is only a little game between egoes without real consequences. Of course, one of the rules seems to be to take it seriously, as if it was really important for the country (Colombia) or for the mankind, or whtatever it is about.
Sorry about the unclosed link. I hope this works. Fingers crossed.
hola tengo un problema y es que alguien creo un blog con el fin de difamar a las personas, quisiera saber si no hay una ley o alguna forma que a eso se le ponga fin, es muy triste saber que uno es protagonista de un habladurias calumniadoras…
gracias espero su respuesta
Finalmente jamas se supo nada del Aprix11, supuesto grupo autor del delito.
Y Ruiz cerro el blog Pais Bizarro.