Interesting Article in the Washtington Post...
"An Attack That Came Out Of the Ether"
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Originally Posted by The Washtington Post
The e-mail landed in Danielle Allen's queue one winter morning as she was studying in her office at the Institute for Advanced Study, the renowned haven for some of the nation's most brilliant minds. The missive began: "THIS DEFINITELY WARRANTS LOOKING INTO."
Laid out before Allen, a razor-sharp, 36-year-old political theorist, was what purported to be a biographical sketch of Barack Obama that has become one of the most effective -- and baseless -- Internet attacks of the 2008 presidential season.
Allen had been obsessing about the origins of her e-mail at the institute
The use of the Internet made it possible to launch anonymous attacks that could reach millions of voters in weeks or even days.
it made her angry. And curious.....
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It's an intesting read, althought I did laugh at one part:
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Originally Posted by hype
She boasts two doctorates, one in classics from Cambridge University and the other in government from Harvard University, and won a $500,000 MacArthur "genius" award at the age of 29. Last year she joined the faculty of the institute, the only African American and one of a handful of women at the elite research center, where she works alongside groundbreaking physicists, mathematicians and social scientists. They don't have to teach, and they face no quotas on what they publish. Their only mandate is to work in the tradition of Einstein, wrestling with the most vexing problems in the universe.
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Followed by:
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Originally Posted by heh
She had another thought: What if she took some of the unusual phrases from the text of the e-mail and Googled them?
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Yup! She used Google to find something on the Internet. Bloody brilliant!