[pd-discuss] Update on Gale

Thu Jan 10 11:33:15 UTC 2013

Classic Yes Men, Afrika Gruppe, etc. work  

I completely fell for it.

The point as Jonathan has said is to give others an opportunity to question why they don't do it for real.   

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On Wednesday, 9 January 2013 at 19:52, Jonathan Gray wrote:

> Malicious threats and software security issues aside, it is a great satire on a pretty sad situation. Gale's restriction of access to public domain texts is something I've been wanting to write something about for a while, and now we have a good excuse!
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> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Peter B. Hirtle <pbh6 at cornell.edu (mailto:pbh6 at cornell.edu)> wrote:
> > I talked to our Gale representative. She didn’t know anything about this site or announcement but promised to look into it.  She just called back and said that it appears that someone has hacked into the Gale site, copying its look and its content.  She said that Gale will be releasing an announcement shortly that this site has nothing to do with them and telling people to stay away.  
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> > The only good news: our IT folks have not yet been able to identify any malicious threats generated from my visiting the web site or running the software.  They are investigating further, but for now it would appear to be a very elaborate hoax.
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