AF/91
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af-91-184-7626894
title:
AF/91
text:
AF/91 was a virus hoax surrounding a computer virus purportedly created by the United States Intelligence Community as a cyberweapon during the Gulf War. The hoax originated in a 1991 InfoWorld article published as an April Fools' Day joke; in reality, no such virus ever existed, and the U.S. military is not known to have used a strategy similar to this in the Gulf War. Despite its publication date and the article clarifying it was for April Fools' Day, the story drew significant media attention
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Fake computer virus envisioned as an April Fools' Day joke in 1991
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AF/91
date created:
2009-10-19T18:50:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T08:21:55Z
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