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The Register: MS hacked again — “illuminati terrorists,” this time

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 27, 2000

[ Thanks to Andrew
for this link. ]

“Insult to injury in Microsoft’s hour of trial(s). While hackers
of the possibly sinister, secretive variety been busily downloading
company source code, hackers of the more usual ‘tee hee’ variety
seem to have been messing with the company’s Internic entry.”

“Undoubtedly the Apple and Microsoft entries will get fixed PDQ
(remember the AOL one while you’re about it, people), but
fortunately we have a grab we prepared earlier, just in case.”

The Register goes on pass along the NIC entries (found
here
):

MICROSOFT.COM.IS.SECRETLY.RUN.BY.ILLUMINATI.TERRORISTS.NET

MICROSOFT.COM.IS.RULED.BY.HACKERJACK.COM

MICROSOFT.COM.INSPIRES.COPYCAT.WANNABE.SUBVERSIVES.NET

MICROSOFT.COM.HAS.NO.LINUXCLUE.COM

MICROSOFT.COM

APPLE.COM.IS.THE.CHOICE.OF.ALL.SELF.RESPECTING.TERRORISTS.NET

APPLE.COM

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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