From: William Knowles <erehwon@c2.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 04:40:55 -0700 (PDT)
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Recent Web site cracks [CIA & DOJ sites]
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Igor Chudov asked after stewarts@ix.netcom.com wrote:

>> The DOJ and CIA sites were actually cracked; don't know the mechanisms.
>> The dole-kemp96.com and dole-kemp96.org domains were spoofs - they
>> have similar names to the real site, and people reach them by accident
>> or by hearing about them.  According to today's San Jose Mercury News,
>> the web designer who registered them did so just before Dole announced
>> Kemp as his VP, and tried to sell his design services to the campaign.
>> They didn't buy it, and the names were sitting around with nothing
>> better to do anyway, so he decided to have a good time with them.
>> Supposedly he's gotten about 40,000 hits and the "real" 
>> site got 1,000,000. 
> 
> Anyone got a copy of the cracked CIA page?

Try: http://www.dis.org/se7en/hacktrash/index.html

Both the CIA and the DOJ sites are mirrored there.

Cheers!

William Knowles
erehwon@c2.net


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