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01/16/2008 14:13:00

Heh: Cross Vowel Substitution Attack (CSVA) Impacts McCrory Gubernatorial Bid

From Threat Level:

Charlotte, North Carolina, mayor Pat McCrory announced his candidacy for state governor yesterday in a press release e-mailed by his campaign. The letterhead graphic in the announcement featured a significant typo.

A typo by a harried Photoshop wage slave? You’d think. But when a reporter asked McCrory’s staff about it, they revealed that an evil hacker had broken into their computers and inserted the misspelling to sabotage the campaign.

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