A hacker has allegedly broken into the computers of the publisher of the Harry Potter series and has obtained a digital copy of the 7th and final book. A summary of the ending can be found all over the Internet.Unfortunately, I couldn't stop myself and visited the site and had a look. I would like to believe that it's all rubbish because if it is true, I am very disappointed. I expected a better ending. The good thing is that the plot is not given. Only who dies and who kills them.
If you want to have a look as well, click here. This will link to a news article which contains the link to the spoilers. Let's hope it's all a publicity stunt and not the true ending!
2 comments:
So you were one of them!
I mean there was a dramatic increase of traffic for insecure.org (and seclist.org). Apparently it was features in BBC, Reuters, MSNBC, NY Times, News.com, Wired, FOX News, etc. Wow, that was some exposure. For me the story amuses me in two ways.
1. It's laughable at the amount of junk in the Net related to the upcoming HP book, and people who believes them. (So far 3 or 4 different books found the way to my Inbox. :)
2. insecure.org (and seclist.org) is the home (and main resources) of popular Open Source security tool Nmap security scanner, to which have a special affinity. Fyodor has jokingly mentioned "Muggles take over Insecure.Org!" on the insecure.org home page.
Anyway, I'm going to do a blog post on these HP things.
This is not the first time someone claims that he hacked the book. About 3 months ago I got a whole hoax book by email. So surely this is also a hoax.
read more on Reuters http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2028966520070621
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