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Nobody strives harder to get your attention than the guy who wants to tell you something utterly banal.(The Week)(hackers at the United Nations)(Brief article)

National Review

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Nobody strives harder to get your attention than the guy who wants to tell you something utterly banal. So it is with computer hackers, some number of whom managed to break into several websites belonging to U.N. agencies and post unauthorized messages on them. What were these cyber-geniuses so keen to tell the world? Something illuminating, interesting, original, or funny? No, only: "Hey Israel and Usa dont kill children and ...

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