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from Odyssey, December 2000
Internet Hoaxes:
Don't Believe Everything You Read
by Kathiann M. Kowalski
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 Would you believe
that simply reading infected e-mail with your eyes lets  hackers
capture your family’s financial information and destroy your hard
drive?
How about e-mail from earlier this year
that claimed a national food chain sold fake chicken? According to the
warning, New England university researchers revealed that the chain used
“genetically manipulated
organisms” with “no beaks, feathers, or feet.”
Welcome to the world of Internet hoaxes!
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Did You Hear the One About. . .?
Internet hoaxes run in cycles, notes Rob
Rosenberger of VMyths.com. For example, the “read-with-your-eyeballs”
threat first surfaced in 1998 and then again this year. “There’s
a constant influx
of new users who have not seen each of these different hoaxes,” explains
Rosenberger. “No hoax dies. It just gets a new life-cycle.”
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"Internet Hoaxes: Don't Believe Everything You Read" by Kathiann M. Kowalski from Odyssey:Science or Hoax?, vol. 9, no. 9, December 2000. Copyright © 2000 by Cobblestone Publishing Company, 30 Grove Street, Suite C, Peterborough, NH 03458. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission of Carus Publishing Company.
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