Well, this is ironic.

by Maureen O'Connor | April 2, 2008 at 2:16 am

Well, this is ironic.

As of 3AM today (don't ask) a Daily Penn news brief under the title "N.Z. teen pleads guilty to hacking Penn server" was linking to the above garbledy-goo. It was the only link with the problem. Hacker story hacked? Why, it's so meta, it's almost quaint!

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9 Responses to “Well, this is ironic.”

  1. anonymous Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 am

    I highly doubt it, Maureen. Most defacements don’t look like that. That’s probably just a corrupted file.

  2. aka Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 7:28 am

    Not that this could have anything to do with the fact that the date on the original article is 4/1/08… Otherwise known as April Fools’ Day.
    The unmolested version is here,
    http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=486fdff4-cf17-48ab-9706-32bccd11dadc

  3. Tim Price Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 8:15 am

    We want to hear about Ivy League admissions. In fact, we demand it.

  4. @ Tim Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am

    you’re probably a ‘12. go die.

  5. y10 Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 am

    yeah, hackers often just turn pages into gobbledegook.

    wait, what? if the site had been “hacked”, the hacker would have done a little bit more than just obfuscate one news story.

  6. @9:03 Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 9:42 am

    Get a sense of humor.

  7. Penn '09 Says:
    April 2nd, 2008 at 12:52 pm

    Well, I guess that confirms that Ryan Goldstein is pretty much off the hook. (It’s true! The Penn computer hacker is my best friend! It’s like I’m a felon by association!)

  8. jbs Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am

    Wrong.

    Your browser isn’t negotiating correctly whether or not it supports gzip compression.

    $ file News-Brief.N.z.Teen.Pleads.Guilty.To.Hacking.Penn.Server-329
    4604.shtml

    gzip compressed data, from FAT filesystem (MS-DOS, OS/
    2, NT)

    The contents of this “gzip -dc” shows that this file contains the article.

    Additionally, wget, which doesn’t have gzip support, correctly retrieves the file.

    In future, please do some research before posting gratuitous technical articles.

  9. @jbs Says:
    April 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm

    “gratuitous technical articles??” Really?

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