August 24, 2010 07:05 PM UTC

A Peek Behind the Wire?

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• by: Colorado Pols

Last night we were forwarded a link, which purportedly linked to a story on the website of the state’s newspaper of record. But when we got there, this is what we saw:

This, um, “error” appears to have been corrected as of this morning, but we verified that other people had seen it–it appears to have redirected an error message on stories that had been replaced with newer versions. In most cases, these are links that wouldn’t be easy to find.

We’ll start by saying that we don’t think there is any actual threat from having viewed this page, and you should be safe to continue browsing the web pages of the Denver paper (assuming you still do). What we’re less clear on is whether this is simply a hack job from an external source (less likely given the content), or a disgruntled employee planting a warning in pages “Denver Post Employees” would be more likely to find than anyone else?

A poll follows, while we check our tinfoil supply…

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