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IP: Bond vs. Legion of Doom
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 12:40:49 -0500
From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch () mediaone net> To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: IP: Bond vs. Legion of Doom Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:58:16 -0500
From Need-To-Know - http://www.ntk.net/:
ITV's plan to replace News At Ten with Bond films has somehow carried over into newsprint, with "Blackmail Hackers Take Over Military Satellite" making the front page of last week's SUNDAY BUSINESS instead of just the listings for GOLDENEYE (8.35pm, Wed, ITV). Reuters retracted, the Beeb said it was impossible, the Telegraph printed a nice diagram, and the MOD denied that there was anything wrong with the Skynet satellite - "but they would say that, wouldn't they?", eager hackers cried. But then *they* would say that, wouldn't they? "Hackers control military satellites" was of course the US media mis-information used to justify the heavy-handed crackdowns in the '80s... so perhaps it's a coded warning. Or maybe it's just the spirit of August 29 1997 all over again, when one of NTK's dedicated staff ping-flooded any machine with "skynet" in its domain name. Sure, the sysops were angry but, when told it was a precaution against Skynet becoming self-aware and deciding mankind's fate in a microsecond, many seemed to understand. Ref BBC Article: Sci/Tech Satellite hijack 'impossible' http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_288000/288965.stm -- Robert Raisch, Internet Hired Gun <http://www.raisch.com> First snow, then silence-This thousand dollar screen-dies so beautifully.
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