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)

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

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

You shoudn't believe everything you read anyway 2000-10-23
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