Prankster Spoofs President Clinton in CNN Online Chat

According to this Fox News piece, during a highly-publicized CNN.com chat with U.S. President Bill Clinton, a chatter managed to log in with the username "President Clinton" and respond to another user's question with the answer, "Personally, I'd like to see more porn on the Internet, Wolf; how about you?" The comment was pulled almost immediately by a moderator, and the bogus Clinton was kicked off in about 20 seconds. CNN seems pretty miffed over the incident. I guess online identity spoofing isn't as common on CNN as it is on Slashdot. For more info about this little stunt, see the prankster's own page, which tells you exactly how he did it -- and why it was so easy.

Comments

Never mind the spoofing. How about some tough q's?

[Apuleius]

Last time the President went online, the moderators filtered out any question that even smacked of controversy. The questions were such softballs they bordered on brown-nosing.

If you get the chance to barge into a chat with Clinton, instead of spoofing, how about doing what no reporter seems to dare and asking him a hard question?

What ever happened to holding the President to high scrutiny?

even better.

[JustShootMe]

He should have come on with the nick "Monica_Lewinsky" and submitted a whole bunch of questions:

• "So, Handsome, do you like me in my new commercials?"
• "I probably should finally get around to cleaning that dress, huh?"
• "Bill! You're so good! oooooooohhhhh!"
• "I SHOULD BE RUNNING FOR SENATE!"
• "So, did you finally divorce that... oh, hi, Hillary...

I mean, come on. If you're going to do something, do it all the way :-)

If you can't figure out how to mail me, don't.

Cyberterrorism must not go unpunished!

[President_Clinton]

My fellow Americans, it is a sad day when hackers are able to impersonate myself, the duly elected commander-in-chief of the American people. I promise you, the American people, that we will apprehend those responsible for these crimes. On the dawning of this Internet Age, we must be ever vigilant in fighting to protect our freedoms from those who would seek to take them away from us.