"A widely-circulated URL which points to a image that purports to be a
Wired.com story about Steve Jobs health is a hack job. We won't provide
the URL here, but the Twitterverse quickly surmised that the item was not correct. As have Mashable and Gizmodo.
I've written a number of stories about Jobs health hoaxes —
including
one about an obituary that Bloomberg mistakenly put on the wire, and
another about a CNN
iReport that sent Apple shares up 10 percent — but the true author of
this crude fake, which hit far closer to home, remains a mystery.
The hoaxer was able to create a cursorily valid-looking page using our
public upload image viewer, whose URL was not a secret and which
generates a page containing an image under a genuine Wired logo banner.
(Yes, it has been patched.)
In this instance the hoaxer went to the considerable
trouble of creating an image of a three-paragraph story, with such
affirming attributes as my aforementioned byline, current time stamp,
some excellent (genuine) related stories and the social bookmarking
icons at the bottom — including an (unfortunately hoax) 201 Diggs."
Read more: http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/01/wiredcom-imagev.html
