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21 Jun 2007
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.
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<p>gabreiles a fraud</p>
Posted by: bob (not real name) 25 Jul 2007
<p>The Harry Potter hoax, or manipulating the mass media for fun and for profit.</p> <p>Harry Potter book has not been stolen.<br /> It is an homebrew experiment of a well known military tactic named Psychological Operation (PSYOP), applied to Information Warfare.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>PSYOPs can be summarized as: the creation of fake information, a partial description or censorship applied to mass media.</p> <p>PSYOPs are widely used by non-democratic governments in different countries around the world and by big political-economical lobbies in western countries.</p> <p>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.</p> <p><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.harry-potter/browse_thread/thread/aa25070e7c0959f8/9a04b6779b5a0c2f"><a href="http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.harry-potter/browse_thread/thread/aa25070e7c0959f8/9a04b6779b5a0c2f">http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.harry-potter/browse_thread/thread/aa25070e7c0959f8/9a04b6779b5a0c2f</a></a></p>
Posted by: Luther Blisset 24 Jun 2007