Reuters hacked, fake news posted

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It's not hard to imagine attacks on information dissemination platforms being used for more nefarious purposes than just propaganda - see

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/business/09air.html?_r=1

and imagine it being posted intentionally by someone with a large short position.

Of course the real danger is that they will get hacked and their coverage will actually get better :-)

On a more serious note is would probably be worthwhile for news agencies to to at least put a digital fingerprint on their published stories to raise the cost of creating a credible fake story.

This sounds like the work of the Syrian Cyber Army, a pro-Assad hacker group.

Some background links:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21506-assad-masses-syr...

http://www.theworld.org/2011/06/syrian-government-takes-the-...

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