Released on = April 3, 2006, 9:05 am

Press Release Author = Danny Simkin/ samsonblinded.org

Industry = Computers

Press Release Summary = Jerusalem, Israel April 2, 2006 Hackers broke into the
Amazon Invite system and distributed fake advertisement of the hard-line group
SamsonBlinded.org designed to cause negative publicity for the group.

Press Release Body = FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: On April 1, Amazon sent a message to
possibly hundreds of thousands of its customers, calling attention to a
controversial book, Samson Blinded: A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East
Conflict, and offering free copies. The message, ostensibly an advertisement, was
worded to irritate the readers.

Hackers tricked Amazon into sending the message using scarcely protected Invite
feature, intended for communication between Amazon customers. Within hours, annoyed
customers flooded Amazon's page selling the book with negative reviews. Amazon
promptly restricted the Invite functionality.

The author, anonymous politician known as Obadiah Shoher, believes anti-Semitic
hackers staged the incident to cause negative publicity in response to recent
cyberattacks reportedly by his followers on Neo-Nazi websites. Shoher wrote in the
book, "The targets should include insurgent groups' official websites but also
forums, chat rooms, secondary Islamist support sites, and so on. Security services
should log the IP addresses of everyone who visits those sites and track them down,
even subpoena them through the local police."

The group samsonblinded.org, which formed around the Shoher's manifesto, announces
it will honor the requests for free book copies from bloggers and activists
resulting from Amazon breach.

The book advocates realpolitik measures of antiterrorism and Israeli survival.
Google earlier banned the website www.SamsonBlinded.org from its advertising program
for "unacceptable content."


Web Site = http://www.samsonblinded.org

Contact Details = Danny Simkin
samsonblinded.org
22 Ben Gamla
Jerusalem Israel 95148
tel/fax408 5499822
danny@samsonblinded.org