First published: 26th June 2009
Allan Dyer
Michael Jackson died at 2009/06/25 21:26 GMT, the first email about his death, with a fake YouTube link to malware arrive in my mailbox 2009/06/26 04:09 GMT. A delay of less than 7 hours. Arrival of second email: 04:32. Perhaps the number of fake messages, and the speed of their arrival is giving us a new measure of the significance of media events.
Farewell, Michael Jackson. Everyone else, don't get fooled by fake emails.