From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 19:07:01 -0700 (PDT)
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: Recent Web site cracks
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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?

	- Igor.