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Harry Potter hacked?
So a posting on the mailing list at InSecure.org comes from someone claiming to be in possession of a full copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. The hacker, Gabriel, claims to have exploited PCs at Bloomsbury Publishing and got away with a copy of the forthcoming manuscript. That's all believable and not really surprising. What's annoying is that the hacker posted a spoiler revealing the end of the book at the top of the posting, kind of spoiling it for everyone if it is actually true.
June 21, 2007 | Permalink
The Harry Potter hoax, or manipulating the mass media for fun and for profit.
Harry Potter book has not been stolen.
It is an homebrew experiment of a well known military tactic named Psychological Operation (PSYOP), applied to Information Warfare.
In less than 48 hours a fake news has realized 200 newspaper publication (including BBC, CNN, REUTERS) , 10.000+ blogs, many TV reportage, from the India to Southamerica.
PSYOPs can be summarized as: the creation of fake information, a partial description or censorship applied to mass media.
PSYOPs are widely used by non-democratic governments in different countries around the world and by big political-economical lobbies in western countries.
Our goal was to provide to the world citizen a proof of the vulnerability of today information society and let them think seriously about that.
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.harry-potter/browse_thread/thread/aa25070e7c0959f8/9a04b6779b5a0c2f
Posted by :Luther Blisset | June 24, 2007 2:16 PM
gabreiles a fraud
Posted by :bob (not real name) | July 25, 2007 10:45 PM