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"AOL's Security Fiction"
On November 25, hackers attacked AOL's Court TV area, C|Net reported. The on-line news service even displayed a screen-shot of the window which appeared when users tried to access an area with information about the O.J. Simpson case. It displayed the mysterious message, "It's a PIC of OLAF."AOL spokesperson Kathy Johnson told Newsbytes that hackers had obtained the password to an account with access to the Court TV area, speculating it may have been an Instant Message "password fish". (Ironically that week the Court TV area was offering its users as the prize in a give-away: a Court TV keychain.)
But the screen-shot appearing in the hacked file library depicts previously-unreported attacks on captions below Court TV's icons. "Card shit here!" one announced. "Staffer porn!" offered another. "Warez rooms!" "Cyber Sex Board area!"