Hide's 'Alter-Ego' Creates Hoax Website for MP
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WHILE politicians worldwide are embracing Internet vote- grabbing, ACT leader Rodney Hide has discovered the ugly side of cyberspace as the subject of a hoax website that includes a recipe for methamphetamine.
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The identity of the blogosphere's "secret senator" has been revealed.
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No hacking in 'schoolboy prank' Newly demoted Olympics minister Tessa Jowell has fallen victim to pranksters who sent spoof messages in her name. Contrary to reports in The Independent a spokesman for the minister said the emails came from a bogus account set up with GMail and not as a result of a hacker breaking into any account she controlled.â¦
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The creator of a prank site MarryOurDaughters comes clean after duping at least a half dozen radio talk show hosts.
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Upstanding Blue blog promises hard line NSFW A Tory blog has been penetrated by an act of classic web waggery after it leeched bandwidth via a picture used to illustrate a posting about party fees.â¦
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A new Explorer hole will make online scam artists lives even easier, by allowing them to make a fake website look more like the real thing than ever before.
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Also: New Zealand teen runs internet banking scam. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra.
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An MP allegedly bugged by police while meeting a constituent in prison says he wants to know the truth.
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A British member of parliament had his  Facebook account suspended this week after the popular social  networking site decided he wasn't real.
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Ministry of Justice officials were told weeks ago a Labour MP had been bugged, an investigation reveals.
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Information on individuals has been collected in a scam using e-greetings that appear to come from a secret admirer.
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ABC News' fleeting, inadvertent publishing of a computer screen name enabled a blogger to track down and make public the identity of a former congressional page who traded salacious messages with former Rep. Mark Foley.
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Scientist claims he was duped into film appearance.
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By Brian Bergstein  Following revelations that a high-ranking member of Wikipedia's bureaucracy used his cloak of anonymity to lie about being a professor of religion, the free Internet encyclopedia plans to ask contributors who claim such credentials to identify themselves.
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Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, said a controversy over the faked credentials of "essjay" -- an editor of the online encyclopedia's who faked his credentials -- likely means other editors will soon need to prove their own qualifications.
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While it's easy to go undercover online, remaining anonymous is no sure bet. These virtual celebrities were ''outed'' on the Web.
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It had to happen. A Web site set up to encourage anonymous leaks of controversial government secrets has been exposed before its launch.