These days when there's trouble on the internet, there's usually someone at the ready to jump up and take (or assign) blame for whatever went wrong, nevermind the facts. It can mean free publicity for your cause -- whether it's changing laws like the Digital Economy Act or beefing up the government's budget for cyber security.
Sometimes it doesn't take much more than a tweet and a Pastebin post to get a serious amount of free publicity. So in the spirit of 11 Sepetember's GoDaddy incident where a random Twitter handle claimed to have downed the hosting giant, here are five great hacks that never happened -- despite what you might have learned from the media.
By: Robert McMillan, Edited by: David Cornish
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/12/hacks-that-never-were
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