Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 01:46:59 -0600 From: Christopher Schulte <schulte+freebsd@nospam.schulte.org> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it>, chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: m$ acquired red hat ? :-) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020202013718.0374b4d0@pop3s.schulte.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020202082838.01dffec0@194.184.65.7> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020202011729.02ccd660@pop3s.schulte.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20020202080853.02e19fd8@194.184.65.4>
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At 08:32 AM 2/2/2002 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: >At 02/02/2002, Christopher Schulte wrote: >>At 08:10 AM 2/2/2002 +0100, you wrote: >> >>>http://www.microsoft.com&item%3Dq209354@212.254.206.213/1338825GHU_98.asp >> >>The most legitimate 'fake' URL I've seen. To the untrained eye, this >>looks absolutely believable. Minus the content, of course. :_) > >Infact, the joke was realized very well, the www.microsoft.com in the >first part of the url catch all the attention of the reader :-) Show that URL to joe internet user, and he would not spot the discrepancy, me thinks. I'll bet that even many experienced users would pass it up also. As time moves forward however, more and more will be aware of the trickery and learn to spot hoaxes such as this. A while back, most users didn't even suspect an obviously unofficial url as false representation. http://www.some-isp.com/~prankster/ms_acquires_redhat.html would do the trick. As joe has gotten smarter, the pranksters take it to the next level. >Best Regards, >Gianmarco Giovannelli , "Unix expert since yesterday" >http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco -- Christopher Schulte http://www.schulte.org/ Do not un-munge my @nospam.schulte.org email address. This address is valid. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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