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Thursday, August 30, 2007

When Threats Are Like Spam

Inside Higher Ed: "Such threats aren’t necessarily unusual at large and prominent institutions, but in this case officials started to notice that they weren’t alone. At Princeton University, an e-mailed bomb threat arrived at an inbox for general inquiries early on Sunday morning and was discovered the next day. Eleven separate messages arrived at the admissions office of Oregon State University at around the same time. On Tuesday, American University’s Washington College of Law received two threatening e-mails."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

People get annoyed with "spam" as it is. It is sad that people can pull these hoaxes especially with everything else that's going on. To think that someone is probably at his home desktop laughing is a sickening feeling.

Harriet said...

It's upsetting to see that students are that apathetic to go to class. Why not just fake sick and go to health services? Is it really worth it to go and disrupt not only the school, but also the law enforcement agencies? It reminds me of how we have become a sue happy nation and now we are also a bomb threat happy nation.