Ken Olsen died in 2011 -- and false date clickbait links be damned! Yep, the story I sent out a bit earlier turns out to be from 2011. I was sitting here and thinking to myself "I sure thought Ken had died some years ago ..." rechecked the date on the actual story and found that yes, it's about five years old.
This was the primary result of crooked clickbait link references on legit news sites that show current dates and attempt to sucker users into clicking on old articles -- as successfully accomplished with me in this case. Usually I catch these before sharing them, and they always piss me off, because we know this is done *purposely*. In any case, sorry for the wasted time you won't get back. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
