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>From "il Giornale", January 9, 2000

On the Internet Pope's texts with words by 883*
The Vatican mocked by hackers: fake site, for one year nobody realised it.

For a whole year and up until two days ago a fake site of the Vatican,
almost perfectly identical to the official one but with some malicious
modifications, was consulted on the Internet by unaware visitors. The joke
was discovered in these hours: who visited vaticano.org during last year
found a copy nearly identical of the official site of the Holy See
(www.vatican.va), but with "re-touched" contents. In the texts published
on the site, included the Pope's interventions, were “heretical”
proclamations, invented words, unpardonable errors and even songs by 883*:
everything put in a “plausible” context. The action, conceived in an
anticlerical and antagonist context, came up thanks to Network Solutions
(the company that sells Internet Domain Names all over the world) who
decided not to renew the contract to the ones who registered it. “At the
expiring of the contract - one can read in the messages that are
circulating in these hours on the antagonist sites - Network Solutions
sold the domain to a catholic association in Rome”. At the moment the
address www.vaticano.org hosts a site under construction that promises
information on the Jubilee.  The domain, according to the archives of the
society that sells them, seems to be registered by a software society in
Rome. From the same archives comes out that, a site with a similar name,
www.vatican.org, has been registered the 9 February 1999 by a certain
Gerald Beals, a man who lives in the USA, Easton (Massachusetts). 
According to the mailing lists that reconstruct the event, the work of
detournement of the holy texts “involved tens of Blissett from the whole
country, and was about to add German, Spanish and English language
sections to the main, Italian one. For 12 months thousands of people
visited “vaticano.org”, and nobody realised that the contents of the site
had been “re-touched ””. 


* [an Italian teeny-bopper band]


Press coverage:

- “Repubblica”, January 9, 2000
Fake site of the Vatican on the Internet

- “L’Unita’”, January 9, 2000
Joke on the Net for the Vatican
Faked the official site on the Web

- “La Stampa” January 9, 2000
Internet: for one year fake site of the Vatican

- “Giornale di Brescia”, January 9, 2000
Internet, for one year nobody disclosed fake site of the Vatican

- “Resto del Carlino”, January 9, 2000
Fake site of the Vatican on the Net for one year

- “Il Giorno”, January 9, 2000
Fake Vatican site on the Net for one year.




- Rtmark: The Holy See steals Vaticano.org
http://www.rtmark.com/etoyvaticano.html


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