NP it's a PoMo world
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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