When news is hacked

When news is hacked
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2000-10-15

With the Orange County Register hack, fake news finally comes to the web.

Same news, just a different form of media 2000-10-19
StevenDara (1 replies)

What!?! Someone is trusting printed news papers? Although this can sound very paranoid, the fact is, The online news hack idea is nothing new, when you consider that news paper editors have been putting their own slant on what and how their version of "news" is reported. And, this is not new, as we ...

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Same news, just a different form of media 2000-10-24
anon

The truth usually catches up to lies.

We will never get and probably don't want an unbiased news source (that would be what, everyone's collective first-hand experience), but one can only hope that many voices contribute more to the pursuit of truth one. Certainly modern corporate media present ...

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Subtle defacement more dangerous 2000-10-19
<dmorone (at) hostpro (dot) net [email concealed]> (1 replies)

I knew people who would hack boxes and subtly change the contents of peoples e-mail messages. No political crap or ego stuff, just pranks. I think subtly editing news sites could at its worse cause major panics. Look at what false rumours in the stock market does....

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Subtle defacement more dangerous 2000-10-30
SEoD

This is certainly true. With the recent case of a cunning young IT pro. (I forget the who/where) giving incorrect share information in order to make gains by share trading, this really does place stocks and shares sites as prime targets for ev1L H4X0rs to get rich quick....

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You shoudn't believe everything you read anyway 2000-10-23
AReader (at) secure (dot) com [email concealed]

People shouldn't believe most of what they read in the press anyway. Use your brain people! Read something, question it, research it, then formulate your own opinions. Don't be sheep! So you can't trust what you read from your favorite news source? As long as the little light in your fridge sti...

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