McCain's MySpace Page Hacked

[Herman Munster]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/03/mccains_myspace.html

According to the webblog TechCrunch, which tracks new Internet products and sites, McCain's MySpace page profile included a pranked letter on Tuesday morning that read: "Dear Supporters, Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage … particularly marriage between two passionate females."

[ryanmuegge]

1. AWESOME! I love it.

[RL3AO]

2. Congrats to the hacker.

[Donnachaidh]

3. LOL!

McCain just got punked. :rofl:

Was he awake when they found it? :sarcasm:

[LuckyTheDog]

4. OK, 'fess up

Who did it?

[Horse with no Name]

5. It was NOT hacked

http://www.rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.techcrunch.com%2F2007%2F03%2F27%2Fjohn-mccains-myspace-page-hacked%2F
>>>snip
Someone on Presidential hopeful John McCain’s staff is going to be in trouble today. They used a well known template to create his Myspace page. The template was designed by Newsvine Founder and CEO Mike Davidson (original template is here). Davidson gave the template code away to anyone who wanted to use it, but asked that he be given credit when it was used, and told users to host their own image files.

McCain’s staff used his template, but didn’t give Davidson credit. Worse, he says, they use images that are on his server, meaning he has to pay for the bandwidth used from page views on McCain’s site.

Davidson decided to play a small prank on the campaign this morning as retribution. Since he’s in control of some of the images on the site, he replaced one that shows contact information with a statement:

[Donnachaidh]

9. OMG -- that's even FUNNIER!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Richard Steele]

6. It wasn't "hacked", it was PAID BACK for stealing!

The photo he was using was on someone else's server.
He was stealing their bandwidth every time anyone
viewed his page.

So they altered the JPEG, to encourage him to stop
the stealing.

And they were MUCH gentler about it than I would have been!

[melody]

11. Stealing image bandwidth is about par for the course on My Space

My servers must get 1000 hits a day just off My Space bandwidth bandits.

[blogslut]

7. Not hacked

Righty McCain is a hotlinking, template-stealing no good varmint.

[BuyingThyme]

8. Thank you. I needed that.

[Junkdrawer]

10. Leave it to ABC News to characterize the incident as a "hack"...

If anything, John McCain's campaign hacked NewsVine...


http://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/27/633799-hacking-john-mccain