RE: Osama's Plot to Blow-up the Internet on January 11th

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: Rob Rosenberger <junkmail () barnowl com>

"WWN" = "Weekly World News," a famous U.S. supermarket tabloid.  Once
published a front-page photo of Rush Limbaugh meeting with aliens who
pleaded with him to run for the presidency.  Jeez, tell me you guys
didn't get hoodwinked?

Vmyths.com will cover the WWN-predicted death of the Internet in
tomorrow's column.  We'll name eight respectable experts you've
definitely heard of -- all of whom side with WWN about the fate of the
Internet.  It'll be one of our wildest columns to date...

Rob Rosenberger, Vmyths editor
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Subject: RE: [ISN] Osama's Plot to Blow-up the Internet on January 11th


Forwarded from: Robert G. Ferrell <rgferrell () direcway com>

At 03:47 AM 1/9/03 -0600, InfoSec News wrote:

> Has this been determined to be true or a hoax?

> > D.C. based security consultant Charles Masford cites in the WWN
> > report that his high level sources in the "FBI anti-cyberterror task
> > force"  have pieced together 400 sources, including debriefings from
> > Al Qaeda fighters, raids in Europe, and intercepted voice and e-mail
> > communications, and have learned that this attack will happen at
> > 11:11AM on 1.11.03!

Has anyone on ISN ever heard of Mr. Masford? I haven't been able to
find any references to him on the Web, and no one in the DC area with
whom I've spoken knows anything about him.  I'm beginning to believe
he may be related to "Captain Tuttle."

;-)



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