Hacker breaches heaven.com

JERUSALEM - In an announcement yesterday which came as a surprise even to himself, Jesus apologised for what he termed a "minor breach of heavenly security". Mankind's Saviour revealed that, traumatised and "slightly hurt" by his embarrasingly self-inflicted experience being nailed to a cross, his security had been somewhat lax of late and that someone had hacked into Christ's mainframe root account and been issuing decrees for quite some time under His alias.

The hacker, who called himself "d3TOn@Tor" has avoided detection thus far but Christ was confident of his imminent arrest.

"Yea, I am all seeing." Christ said "and whilst I have a deep and unending compassion and love for all makind, I'm going to fuck that guy up so bad when I catch him even his own mother won't recognise him. Amen."

The hacker gained access to the heaven.org domain root via the nameserver on the heaven.com domain, a newer domain Christ was forced to establish after Internic authorities ruled that an annual income of over $40bn might conceivably be classified as a "commercial enterprise", and thus undeserving of an *.org domain extension. The new domain was running Microsoft's Windows NT Server 4.0 without several key security patches.

"Verily I say unto you, that Windows NT server t'is the Devil's own operating system, and I cast it from me." Christ told reporters.

"Begone spawn of Satan," added Mankind's Saviour.

"It explains alot." Bishop Redmond Kingston told reporters, "Things were getting kinda hairy for a while. We were trying not to let on, but the whole thing had just gone to shit, I mean priests being arrested for pornography and embezzlement, we were wondering exactly when Our Saviour was going to step in. Took his fucking time, didn't He?"

"Quite frankly, Christ just hasn't been the same since the whole Cross incident." said Michael Gerben, religious scholar and head of Comparative Religious Studies at Michigan State University. "Really put the willies up him, that did, He hasn't been the same since. His mind's just not been on the job."

"I have faith in Our Lord to catch the perpetrator and deal with him appropriately," said Bishop Steven Faulding of Rye Church, "but screw forgiveness, I hope He toasts the fucker. "

Jesus reassured reporters that any internal confliction or absurdity in his doctrine was not due to any fault on His part, but rather was the result of the hacker gaining access to his /usr/god/bs/doctrine fileserver. "frankly, you'd have to be potty to believe all this crap that's been fed out recently."

In the hack, the main webpage of Jesus's heaven.org domain was altered drastically - the words "Welcome to Hell" being crudely substituted for the original "Welcome to Heaven" and a badly drawn graphic of Jesus in a pornographic pose with two naked women being inserted in place of a more reserved picture of Jesus in full robes, along with the words "hacked by d3TOn@Tor".

Most noticeably, however, the hacker rerouted the mail server DNS, causing all of the estimated 200,000 daily emails to the heaven.org domain to be bounced without explanation, and sparking widespread confusion amongst His flock.

"Oh Lord, why hast thou forsaken me?" Marjory White, 53, of Cheshire, England asked, seemingly addressing the empty air in front of her. "Your POP3 server appears to be down in my hour of need."

"Fear thou not, for I am with thee." replied Christ in an boilerplate email reply several hours later, "Verily, though, the mail server was fucked."

"I was most vexed by the troubles with our electronic mail," He later told reporters, "for it prevented me from spreading the light of my undying affection for humankind through the fortuitously expedient form of electronic media. Yea, my voice spans oceans, and my breath stirs the very winds of the Earth and of the Heavens, but lo, its a lot less bother just to reply to a few emails. I say unto you, Whatever you wish to say unto me, say unto me via email."

Jesus has been shunning print media as a carrier for heavenly communications since the United States Post office revealed last year that all letters addressed to Jesus Christ were being archived in a large warehouse in North Dakota, sharing space with letters addressed to the tooth fairy, Santa, and the Keebler Elves . Around the same time last year a deranged postal employee gunned down two of His Reverend Sisters before shooting himself, which many observers saw as the last straw in the already frayed relationship between Mankind's Saviour and the Post Office. Heaven is now fully wired and Christ requested that all appeals for salvation, requests for increased fortunes or messages for dead relatives should be sent via email.

From now on, Jesus advised Christians wishing to reach him to finger His server before attmpting any direct communication. The server has been upgraded and patched and Christ is now sure that the server is safe from further disruption by minions of Satan, but some critics remain doubtful of Jesus' abilities.

"I think we must question Christ's claims to be the Saviour of All Mankind when he can't even look after a webserver." said 43 year-old Paul Strong, a graphic designer from Birmingham, who was rushed to hospital forty minutes later with third degree burns caused by lightning, "What a fucking loser."

Just for the record, its probably worth pointing out the fact that I do know the difference between a hacker (which I am) and a cracker (which I'm not) and why the above usage is incorrect. But many people do not know the difference and would be wondering why I was talking about cheese biscuits gaining access to a webserver. So I used hacker. So bite me.