How will the internet change campaigns when all the candidates...

[More Than A Feeling]

are from the generation that grew up with the internet? Will all the campaigns employ hackers and dirty tricks to try to get candidate's internet histories (if that is possible)? If one of the prices of running for office is that your web history gets pored over, it seems like it would be even harder to find good candidates. I hope that there are strict privacy laws in place, or put into place, to prevent that from happening. It's something we just don't need to know to select candidates.

[snowbear]

1. Remember when Lieberman blamed Lamont's campaign for hacking his site?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14245779/ <-- MSNBC (and several other sites) reported that it had occurred.


And other sites like MyDD as well as our very own Skinner and Bob Geiger, reported why it was nonsense..

Ok, the story about the website hacking is nonsense. First of all, I just talked to Tim Tagaris, and he says that the Lamont campaign is willing to send someone to Lieberman HQ to help put their site back online. Hacking Joe2006.com is something the Lamont campaign just wouldn't do. It would be a stupid and unprofessional move.

Skinner at Democratic Underground has a good post on why the Lieberman story doesn't add up. If this is a DOS attack, how come they have access to their server and can upload messaging?

Update: Computer security expert and blogger Bob Geiger has this to say:


If Lieberman's people or his Internet service provider have tracked down the attack enough to blame it on Ned Lamont, they must, as a matter of technical fact, know something about who launched the action and from where. If this is true, why don't they just go arrest this person and clear all of this up?
Where's the proof?

Second, if it really is an denial of service attack -- in which a web site is bombarded with so much traffic that legitimate users cannot get through -- and they're not actually sitting in the room where the server is located, how can they put up their little update notices that we have sporadically seen?

Earth to Team Joe: At least get your goofy story straight before you lob it out there.

So their entire claim doesn't withstand even the most minimal technical scrutiny.

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/8/8/141421/9441

Would any of the campaigns actually hire hackers.. .. I dunno, you'd have to create a poll here and see how it turns out.