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A writer at Wired put his story on a CIA.gov address yesterday, taking advantage of a simple coding vulnerability that lets anyone make any page look like it's on the CIA's site. Whip up a fake version of the CIA's real sites, send a few spams, and you've got a neat Internet fraud outfit, convincing people the CIA is demanding their credit card numbers. Gimme 5% for thinking of it, kay?
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Apr 15, 2008 4:35 AM
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