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From: "Z.B." <zachb@netcom.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:18:32 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: news article:fake email on Capitol Hill (fwd)
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 06:36:28 -0600
From: Gekko <gekko@midusa.net>
To: dc-stuff@dis.org
Subject: news article:fake email on Capitol Hill
Spoofing Congress
Fake e-mail floods Capitol Hill
NO, THESE weren't lobbyists pummeling members
of Congress with propaganda, but apparently
pranksters under the guise of legitimate Net users. In
recent weeks, they have flooded lawmakers with
hundreds of e-mail threats to delete all files in the
Capitol Hill computer system. One of the identities
used was that of Mercury News Computing Editor
Dan Gillmor in the ruse that included 200 messages to Sen. Barbara
Boxer, D-Calif. The FBI is looking into the incidents of "spoofing,"
but apparently no damage has yet been found.
Story by Rory J. O'Connor
of the Mercury News Washington Bureau
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