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                Date: 1998-09-10
                 
                 
                PR/Hoax: MTV hackt sich selbst
                
                 
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      q/depesche 98.9.10/1 
related    98.6.5/2 
 
PR/Hoax: MTV hackt sich selbst 
 
Die Seite schwarz, bestückt mit hilflosen Disclaimern, 
signiert "JF was here" - alles hat schön gepasst & dennoch 
war es nichts als 1 Stück schwarzer Propaganda, von 
MTV/SpinDoctors ausge/heckt. Unter den Hackern brodelt es 
seit gestern, zumal hier ein angesehener Name missbraucht 
wurde: JF gehört zur Milw0rm group, die Anfang Juni einen 
Server von Indiens Atombehörde "ver/öffentlicht" hatte.  
 
post/scrypt: Interessant wärs zu wissen, wie sich der 
technische Direktor der MTV/Website grade fühlt.        
 
 
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By Jim Hu, CNET September 9, 1998, 2:15 p.m. PT 
When Netizens craving music industry skinny visited MTV 
Online last week, they were not greeted with the standard 
navigation menu, but instead with a crudely scribbled 
message: "JF was here." 
 
Immediately, many assumed what appeared to be the obvious: 
MTV Online was hacked. The page, after all, had all the 
hallmarks of a typical hack--the MTV home page was darkened, 
the "hacker" message was prominently featured, and a small 
link to MTV's actual page was included at the bottom. 
 
Furthermore, the MTV Online logo on the upper right-hand 
side of the home page's screen was defaced and an actual MTV 
disclaimer stated that MTV was "sorry for the inconvenience" 
and "working on legally clearing this off the site." 
 
But despite appearances, there was no hack. MTV itself 
changed the page as part of an elaborate campaign to promote 
an online fictional character named "Johnny Fame," who is 
set to become MTV Online's "roving reporter" during tomorrow 
night's MTV Music Video Awards. 
 
The confusion by Web users was further compounded by the 
name MTV chose to use for its publicity stunt: While Johnny 
Fame might sound like a fairly benign name, his initials, 
which MTV used to "deface" its own page, is also the moniker 
for a member of an international group of young hackers 
called Milw0rm. 
 
The group gained notoriety last June when members gained 
access into India's Bhabha Atomic Research Center and 
downloaded 5 MB of information as a protest against the 
country's nuclear testing program 
... 
MTV, for its part, said it only wanted to find a creative 
way of promoting the character that it plans to use for its 
awards ceremony. 
... 
 
full story 
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,26163,00.html?st.ne.1.head  
 
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