[67737] in Cypherpunks
Re: Recent Web site cracks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igor Chudov @ home)
Thu Oct 10 01:55:10 1996
To: stewarts@ix.netcom.com
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 21:04:15 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: pjb@ny.ubs.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov)
In-Reply-To: <199610081636.MAA10912@attrh1.attrh.att.com> from "stewarts@ix.netcom.com" at Oct 8, 96 09:37:23 am
From: ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)
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.
