Word: pranks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...senior staff member of the Independent said last night that the organization will inform police about the prank...
...filing a police report, and we are telling the police that the Lampoon must have come down there," said the staff member, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "I don't know if it was a prank on their part or what...
...would be a great prank if you set everybody's clocks back an hour, but it's too serious to miss class here at Harvard," says Jonathan E. Simpson '99, who had mulled over the idea of tampering with his roommates' clocks...
THIS IS A TALE ABOUT HOW AN ONLINE prank grows into an international incident. It also goes a long way toward explaining the fear many non-Internet people have about this out-of-control thing called cyberspace...
...here's a reality check. The Finnish remailer could not have been used, since anon.penet.fi no longer transmits binary image files. Jerry Russell, who runs Florida Online and who looked into the case, says he figures the whole thing was a relatively simple prank called a sendmail spoof, in which the prankster posts a message with a phony return address. He says the Willowick police never produced a copy of the posting for him so that he could unravel the tangle for them. Indeed, when the policeman called, "he didn't really understand what he was trying to tell...