October 25, 2006 • 6:26 pm 0
On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers broke into the MIT web server and changed the MIT home page to indicate that The Walt Disney Company had purchased MIT for $6.9 billion.
The hacked page contained a link fake to a press release titled Walt Disney Corporation to Acquire MIT for $6.9 Billion.
Later that day the MIT News Office issued a press release titled MIT says “Disney buys MIT” hack revealed by low price.
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October 10, 2006 • 5:40 pm 0
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 23:45:42 -0500
From: “Harley D. Eades III”
To: rms@gnu.org
Subject: Tribute to freedom.
Hello,
One late rainy night I had an idea. There is a hill on IL route 29 in Peoria IL, that people climb and write a small message across this hill for everyone to view from a far. What would be better than spreading my two most favorite words across this hill. So we set out with a little over 200 garbage bags and nearly 400 nails. 12:30am and rainy so you can figure that a hill of that size is going to be slippery (lol) nearly falling down hill with every step we start building each letter. At around 2:30am we have finished and now the sun will rise over a hill which spreads the words Free Software to every person that passes by. This is by far a vary small non-complex hack but I beleve it
is a hack in it self. This is a tribute to Free Software [and the GNU Project].
Happy Hacking
Harley D. Eades III
FSF Associate Member
Hacker
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