Saturday, May 17th 1997

Comment in the Weekend Australian - Review:
"Pauline's People"
 Saturday May 17th, 1997

Introductory dialogue:

"Pauline Hanson's rhetoric has managed to split the nation like few issues since the Vietnam war. Are her followers racist right-wingers, misguided or misinformed? Who are the Australians backing a woman condemned by politicians from all sides?"

Extract from article by Nicholas Rothwell re hacking:

"The designer of the Hanson web site is almost tearing his hair out: his Net pages have been hacked into overnight and disfigured by someone using a staff computer at the University of Melbourne."

Web developer's comment on the above statement:

I distance myself completely from the above statement. It is factually incorrect:

  1. The reporter never contacted me to get the facts... he interpreted the story in his own fashion.
  2. The hacker hacked in during the day - and was caught "red handed".
  3. I did not "almost pull out my hair" - I immediately reported the incident to the Internet Service Provider.
  4. The hacker did not "disfigure our net pages", he hacked in and continued to change the counter back to 0.

What are your views on this issue?

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