Fame at last...
Aug. 23rd, 2004 10:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyBT Suck got name-checked in the Sunday Telegraph :)
(reading article requires (free) registration, so I've copied the most relevant bit below)
However, Coutts is one of countless corporate victims of "cybersmearers", or those who create websites that spoof corporate ones, usually as a manifestation of consumer complaints.
Meanwhile, the firms in the firing line are trying to fight back. They use lawyers and even private investigators to help close down the e-pranksters. But they are starting to realise that the law is not usually on their side.
Just about any large firm you care to mention has been hit. British Telecom had to suffer the indignity of btsuck.org, which features a vicious attack on BT's internet services.
NThellworld.co.uk is devoted to incinerating the telecoms company's reputation, while starbuckscoffee.co.uk invites visitors to edit the logo of the coffee shop chain with a green marker pen to produce a rather crude imperative.
(reading article requires (free) registration, so I've copied the most relevant bit below)
However, Coutts is one of countless corporate victims of "cybersmearers", or those who create websites that spoof corporate ones, usually as a manifestation of consumer complaints.
Meanwhile, the firms in the firing line are trying to fight back. They use lawyers and even private investigators to help close down the e-pranksters. But they are starting to realise that the law is not usually on their side.
Just about any large firm you care to mention has been hit. British Telecom had to suffer the indignity of btsuck.org, which features a vicious attack on BT's internet services.
NThellworld.co.uk is devoted to incinerating the telecoms company's reputation, while starbuckscoffee.co.uk invites visitors to edit the logo of the coffee shop chain with a green marker pen to produce a rather crude imperative.
