On Feb 16, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
They say during the first Gulf War the Iranians were using a
computer printer with hacked firmware that sent all of Saddam
Hussein's orders directly to us over the internet.
This was based on an old Infoworld April Fools joke, it never happened.
<http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0303/7316.html>
See also "Gulf War Virus" <http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/13.04.html#subj2
> to understand how credulous journalists injected this particular
hoax into our mainstream media.
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