# Bubba and CNN burned by a hacker?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubba-and-cnn-burned-by-a-hacker/7274>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 15, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubba-and-cnn-burned-by-a-hacker/7274 "2000-02-15T22:08:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubba-and-cnn-burned-by-a-hacker/7274/1 "2000-02-16T06:15:00Z")

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I caught the tail end of a news story on Howard Stern this morning that yesterday, during Clinton’s online “chat session” with Wolf Blitzer, a hacker got in and attributed to Clinton the statement “Personally, I’d like to see more porn on the internet. What do you all think about that?” or something to that effect. Unsurprisingly, there’s nothing on the CNN website about this. So is it true? Can anyone provide a link for me?

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**Author:** ![Tinker\_Grey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tinker_grey/32/8136_2.png) [@Tinker\_Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinker_Grey)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubba-and-cnn-burned-by-a-hacker/7274/2 "2000-02-16T06:44:00Z")

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[http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/Clinton000214.html](http://abcnews.go.com/sections/politics/DailyNews/Clinton000214.html)

Tinker

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**Author:** ![KSO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@KSO](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KSO)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubba-and-cnn-burned-by-a-hacker/7274/3 "2000-02-16T06:57:00Z")

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Thanks, Tinker–this story has made my day.

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**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubba-and-cnn-burned-by-a-hacker/7274/4 "2000-02-16T06:59:00Z")

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“We did not ask Clinton if he wanted more porno on the site”

I think I got me a sig line.

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**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bubba-and-cnn-burned-by-a-hacker/7274/5 "2000-02-15T22:08:00Z")

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The guy who did this put up a page: [http://www.boredom.org/cnn/](http://www.boredom.org/cnn/)

It’s not as much a hack as carelessness on the part of CNN…

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