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for http://www.dmoz.org/


and http://dmoz.org/

for the past 24 hours - both in Califonia and New York

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Last year - on April 1st someone hacked into Dmoz and redirected it to an anti mircrosoft page - could there be something malicious happening?

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please see this thread where it is explained what happened.

&gt;&gt; Last year - on April 1st someone hacked into Dmoz and redirected it to an anti mircrosoft page

Ehm.. nobody hacked into Dmoz last year. It was an April's fool, something ODP staff did. 1st April, you know? <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

&gt;&gt; nobody hacked into Dmoz last year. It was an April's fool &lt;&lt;

And it looks like a lot of people got fooled. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" alt="" />

Even Wired, NTK and The Register, among many others, went along with the joke for a while.

There were even some fake press releases going around. A Google search will still find some of it archived away.

It's archived here: http://www.atomicwidget.com/April-01-2002_GOD_PR.html . A shot of the home page is at http://www.rundom.com/dmoz_msn.gif

Talking of which, we'll have to see what happens tomorrow. We've had fools for the past three years.