Lieberman’s “Hacked” Site
Let me throw out a quick plug for the website of my friend Ross Lincoln. Take a second to check out his homepage at ThisSpaceForRent.org. For those who have been closely following the Lieberman/Lamont race, Ross’s site might look familiar because it looks exactly like the “hacked” version of Lieberman’s homepage :
Ross’s site looks like that because he wasn’t paying his hosting bill, but Joementum wants people to believe that his suspended account is due to a hacking or denial of service attack by bloggers. Every political blogger I’ve ever met barely knows HTML, so the idea that the blogosphere is full of technically savvy hackers is laughable. Funnier still is that the message on the Lieberman site is a common site for anyone who’s been to their fair share of “slashdotted” sites.
The fact that the site still isn’t up? Well, even the best hacker in the world is no match for a decent sysadmin. Build a new server, restore from tape backup, point the DNS to the new server, and throw as much of the site as you can at an edge caching service like Akamai. Most high-end web hosts should have disaster recovery procedures in place for emergencies like this and be able to plan ahead for predictable bandwidth spikes. Even if every accusation from the Lieberman campaign was true, the fact that the site is still down can only be laid at the feet of incompetent administrators or a campaign too cheap to pay for high quality web hosting.
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Lieberman Campaign Says Web Site Hacked
Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was locked in a battle with a political novice fueled by anti-war
Trackback by Unpartisan.com Political News and Blog Aggregator — August 8, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
The greatest website in the world couldn’t save Joe’s ass. Maybe if he’d spent less time canoodling with Sean Hannity the tribe wouldn’t have kicked him off Donkey Island…
Comment by jim marquis — August 8, 2006 @ 9:13 pm
joe’s site is back up (but not his sight)
send him a love letter, i did
How does it feel to be a bought and sold fuck?
Don’t understand the concept of democracy?
Don’t understand the concept of you lost the fucking vote?
I would have thought loosing in 2000 and 2004 would have taught you that concept, but fucking bought and sold wankers don’t learn well.
Sorry to see a good mad fall, but you hitched your horse on Satan and his Puppet (Cheney and Bush, respectivly), and I have no problem seeing you waste fifteen years of service to this country be overshadowed by your idiocy of the last three.
Do the country a favor, and support America again, please.
Comment by tofubo — August 13, 2006 @ 8:32 am