RE: Hacking Hoax (fwd)

Joe Barrera (joebar@MICROSOFT.com)
Tue, 26 May 1998 17:16:13 -0700


> From: Robert S. Thau [mailto:rst@ai.mit.edu]
> [...] and at least some of the anecdotes about Wall Street
> veneration for Allen Greenspan (e.g., the investment banker who
> supposedly prayed to a devotional icon of the Chairman) in an article
> which, I believe, got FoRKed.

Yep -- and you'll never guess which idiot forked it:

<http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK-archive/mar98/0381.html>
http://xent.ics.uci.edu/FoRK-archive/mar98/0381.html

Oh well, at least now I know the answer to my question. Just think, if I had
only put more faith in my ability to find anything of interest (that exists)
on the web, I could have been the famous person to reveal Glass as a
fraud... :-)

Oh, and of course, it's not like I was *really* taken in, because of course
I never believe anything I read on /nev/dull...

- Joe

Joseph S. Barrera III
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert S. Thau [mailto:rst@ai.mit.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 1998 4:22 PM
To: Tom Whore
Cc: Vox Expatriots; fork@xent.ics.uci.edu
Subject: Hacking Hoax (fwd)

Tom Whore writes:

> New Republic magazine ran an article on high-powered
hackers... that
> turned out to be entirely fictional. Read all about it
at...
>
>
http://www.forbes.com/asp/redir.asp?/tool/html/98/may/0511/otw2.htm

It turns out that numerous other articles by the same
reporter where
partly or wholly fictional --- these included a widely
recirculated
piece on sex, drugs and rock and roll at a young
conservatives
meeting, and at least some of the anecdotes about Wall
Street
veneration for Allen Greenspan (e.g., the investment banker
who
supposedly prayed to a devotional icon of the Chairman) in
an article
which, I believe, got FoRKed. Other pieces are under
investigation.

rst