*I wonder if these "shopdropping" pranksters get it that newsstand sales are not necessarily all that strong for glossy tech magazines. You could go to all the trouble to fake WIRED, with all kinds of "subversive" genius crammed in there, and it could easily just get dumped out the back door.
*Alternately, the fake WIRED issues might get bought by some schmoe who can't even tell the difference.
*I like it that these WIRED hackers take tremendous effort to obscure their identities, as if a parody of this kind might be leapt on by some lethal paramilitary corporate IP-squad straight out of THE ONION.