For some years now the web site at the University of Oxford in England has
been mirroring the RTFM archives and HTMLizing the plain text FAQs, creating
live links where web URLs are mentioned, for example.
Recently, I found to my horror what by all indications are a hacker attack on
the web site. It is unclear whether this is happening from the RTFM end or the
Oxford end.
Inserted in two files of my FAQ (sci.bio.food-science) was an obscene poem
coverted to ROT-13, entitled:
BISEXUAL BUTTPLUG BITER BARRY BOUWSMA BETRAYS BASIC BESTIALITY BY
BUGGERING BULGARIAN BATH BOYS' BEHINDS !!!
The title is not in ROT-13.
See if the same thing happened to you by checking the directory:
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/
If it has, email the site maintainer, Everard Robinson,
everard.robinson@las.ox.ac.uk
indicating the URLs of the pages in question that have been altered.
In my case, I emailed Mr. Robinson, and the pages have now been deleted.
I checked RTFM, and it appears that there are no altered pages there - but I
have checked after the fact, and don't know if RTFM actually deleted their
files.
Paul
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