IP: Bond vs. Legion of Doom

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

From: "Robert Raisch" <raisch () mediaone net>
To: "Dave Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
Subject: IP: Bond vs. Legion of Doom
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 12:58:16 -0500

> From Need-To-Know - http://www.ntk.net/:
         ITV's plan to replace News At Ten with Bond films has somehow
         carried over into newsprint, with "Blackmail Hackers Take
         Over Military Satellite" making the front page of last week's
         SUNDAY BUSINESS instead of just the listings for GOLDENEYE
         (8.35pm, Wed, ITV). Reuters retracted, the Beeb said it was
         impossible, the Telegraph printed a nice diagram, and the MOD
         denied that there was anything wrong with the Skynet
         satellite - "but they would say that, wouldn't they?", eager
         hackers cried. But then *they* would say that, wouldn't they?
         "Hackers control military satellites" was of course the US
         media mis-information used to justify the heavy-handed
         crackdowns in the '80s... so perhaps it's a coded warning. Or
         maybe it's just the spirit of August 29 1997 all over again,
         when one of NTK's dedicated staff ping-flooded any machine
         with "skynet" in its domain name. Sure, the sysops were angry
         but, when told it was a precaution against Skynet becoming
         self-aware and deciding mankind's fate in a microsecond, many
         seemed to understand.

Ref BBC Article: Sci/Tech Satellite hijack 'impossible'
        http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_288000/288965.stm


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