Hacking the News

Newstweek: The Short Demonstration from newstweek on Vimeo.

This is a video that shows how a couple of hackers created a tool that allows them to alter news sites at a internet hotspot.  The technology is pretty cool, though I think its practicality is limited.  You can't really determine what site each person is looking at, so it doesn't seem that it would have any real effect.  On the other hand if someone employed a localized strategy (changing the umbc home page for example) it could cause a bit of havoc.