Brian McWilliams is a Salon writer who knows his way in fake internet campaigns. As Paul Boutin pointed out, Brian is the « hacker/journalist who duped Computerworld and cracked the « send email to Saddam » mailbox on Uruklink ». Brian wrote a book on SPAM, and blogs extensively on the subject.
Paul Boutin is Wired’s editor, and also a good internet researcher (« Salam Pax is no fake« ).