Fun_People Archive
23 Feb
NBC's Deadly Web

Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 17:15:39 -0800
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: NBC's Deadly Web

Forwarded-by: bostic@bsdi.com (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: Roman Gollent <roman@portal.stwing.upenn.edu>
Forwarded-by: farber@eff.org
This is from the FastForward Mailing List from the Washington Post:

PRESS RELEASES WE'RE NOT MAKING UP:
This just in from NBC Entertainment.  Honest.

"Everything good has a downside -- even computers. There are those twisted
individuals who have used this new way of communication in a heinous
manner. They have infiltrated the networks of foreign countries and
corporations to learn secrets and confidential strategies. They have
"crashed" systems just for fun. And, a frightening few have used this new
world as a way of harassing and terrorizing the innocent. This new and
frightening world will be explored in the NBC television movie, *Deadly
Web,* which will be telecast in April. 'This is a problem that will
escalate as more psychos get on the Internet,' says [star] Gigi [The John
Larroquette Show] Rice."

"Rice herself is not computer savvy and had to be coaxed every inch of
the way to give viewers the illusion that she knew what she was doing with
the computer."

"Special guest star is Robin Quivers of the Howard Stern Show."

© 1996 Peter Langston