FC: George W. Bush the Red? -- web site hacked

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

[Coincidence? Yesterday the site switched from Unix to NT. --DBM]



http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,31986,00.html

                     George W. Bush the Red?
                     by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

                     12:55 p.m. 19.Oct.99.PDT
                     Intruders apparently defaced the official
                     campaign site of Republican presidential
                     candidate George W. Bush early Tuesday,
                     replacing a photo of the Texas governor
                     with a bright red hammer and sickle. 

                     Visitors said the modified Web site, which
                     quoted socialist literature and linked to
                     the International Communist League, was
                     visible around 9:15 a.m. EDT. 

                     Campaign officials spent the morning
                     trying to puzzle out exactly what
                     happened, a task made more difficult by
                     the fact that the Web server
                     automatically copied over the hacked
                     page with the original one. 

                     [...]


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