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Doug Millison millison at online-journalist.com
Sun Oct 29 13:46:08 CST 2000


...speaking of the social construction of reality:

First Instance of Media Subversion of Information Attack

This appears to be the first well documented instance of a type of 
threat which has been discussed for years. The Orange County Register 
wrote three stories about a man charged with cracking into a NASA 
site. About a week later, the Register found that the text of all 
three archived stories had been altered, mostly with juvenile stunt 
scribbling. While in the past, a number of newspapers have had their 
Web pages defaced, this appears to be the first time that archived 
news stories were changed. In this case, the blatant nature of the 
alterations led to a quick discovery, but the possibility of subtly 
altering history by changing the public record has come to light. 
Inside e-zine has the story.
<http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,10757_7_4_1,00.html> 
http://www.inside.com/story/Story_Cached/0,2770,10757_7_4_1,00.html
--from Netsurfer Digest
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