Bloggers and web site owners, don’t plan on getting too far from your computer on Sunday or you may become unwilling participants in a hacker “contest” scheduled to hit 1,000 sites per hour.

The government and private technology experts warned Wednesday that hackers plan to attack thousands of Web sites Sunday in a loosely coordinated “contest” that could disrupt Internet traffic.

Organizers established a Web site, defacers-challenge.com, listing in broken English the rules for hackers who might participate. The Web site appeared to operate out of California and cautioned to “deface its crime” — an apparent acknowledgment that vandalizing Internet pages is illegal.[...]

New York officials urged companies to change default computer passwords, begin monitoring Web site activities more aggressively, remove unnecessary functions from server computers and apply the latest software repairs from vendors such as Microsoft Corp.[...]

The purported “prize” for participating hackers was 500-megabytes of online storage space, which made little sense to computer experts. They said hackers capable of breaking into thousands of computers could easily steal that amount of storage on corporate networks.

Hack away, you fools, but realize that your little games only make the government’s efforts to regulate the internet seem more desireable to the people harmed by your stupidity. But know this: if you hit EV, I won’t drag the government into it. I’ll handle it myself and my vengeance will be so swift and so thorough that even your grandchildren will be born with the imprints of my foot on their flattened, empty heads.