Someone PO'd at the Australian Classification Board, which rates games and other media down under, hacked into its Web site on Thursday and placed anti-censorship messages on the front page.
The site was taken offline to remove the graffiti and investigate the breach, but while it was up, here's what visitors saw:
This site contains information about the boards that have the right to CONTROL YOUR FREEDOMZ. The Classification Board has the right to not just classify content (the name is an ELABORATE TRICK), but also the right to DECIDE WHAT IS AND ISNT APPROPRIATE and BAN CONTENT FROM THE PUBLIC.
GameSpot reports that the site attack was in close proximity to the airing of a news program (sigh, programme) in which the country's Minister for Communications had discussed proposed mandatory Internet filtering.
The government confirmed the hacking, defacing and taking the site online, and said the matter had been referred over to the Australian federal police. Whoever had the wherewithal to do this probably had the means to cover their tracks though.
Hackers Deface Aussie Classification Web Site [Gamespot AU via Gamepolitics]