Barack Obama Website Hacked By Clinton Supporter

[Yael]

Run time: 01:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKjomr1Afq0   Posted on YouTube: April 20, 2008 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 20, 2008 By DU Member: Yael Views on DU: 2322

 
*sigh*

[TriggerGal]

1. It is fixed ...

see: http://www.barackobama.com/index.php

[indimuse]

2. stfu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

liars! All of U!!!

[ToughLuck]

10. Hillary is free of lies???? In your dreams maybe.

[butterfly77]

11. You are beginning to sound like you are losing it...

[Cheap_Trick]

15. uh, you have flecks of spittle on your lip

I know that jacket with wraparound sleeves makes it hard to wipe...maybe an orderly can help you.

[Citizen_Penn]

16. Who's a liar?

Say it with me now.

HILLARY CLINTON IS A LIAR!

[roguevalley]

18. get help. truly.

[FOS]

3. It's Been Corrected

I just checked. Looks like they found it and fixed it.

[trumad]

4. Must be the Lamont campaign

:eyes:

[KSinTX]

20. Well, we know it wasn't McCain

They're still using parchment and quill pens over there.

[Jack Bone]

5. how friggin' childish...it could've been some freeper?

this actually sinks to that level.

[peoli]

6. They must have fixed it already. Doesnt do it on mine.

[Captain Angry]

7. To be fair.

If I wanted to make a video like that, there is a way that I can tell my system that any web request to democraticunderground.com is to be redirected to foxnews.com. It would take one line of typing to make it happen, and it would look just like the example in this video.

If it was repeatable by other people, it could have been an insecure SQL/PHP page that had an injection hack or something. It could have been a Clinton supporter, a McCain supporter, a bored Russian, a Chinese hacker testing a new tool, it could just as easily have been an Obama supporter wanting to make something to piss people off about Senator Clinton.

I'm not saying it wasn't hacked, but I am saying that I could recreate this with one line of text.

[Yael]

8. There were quite a few reports of it

Vid was posted on DailyKos in the diary about it.

[Captain Angry]

9. Interesting.

I wonder if the site administrator forgot to enable all of the injection protections. I'd really be interested to hear what they find the hack was. Was it something they should have been able to protect against, or was it sophisticated.

There are millions of holes in the way the internet works. New ones are found and cataloged all the time. It's one of the reasons the Feds are so worried about the Chinese and Russian hacking teams. They have nothing to do all day but filter through the source code to everything and find exploits. If it ever gets into a "shooting" war between intelligence organizations through the net, we will have a major problem.

[ekwhite]

12. Absolutely true. This could be quite simple to do

Even if it was hacked, it was more of a childish prank than anything else, plus a good warning to the webmaster. This most likely was not done by the Clinton campaign. They would have stolen the mailing list from the server, not hacked the link.

[Captain Angry]

13. Exactly.

Professional espionage would be untraceable and would leave no tracks.

I could see somebody making an /etc/hosts file that redirects that request to a different website and then claiming dirty tricks.

Sounds like it hit more people, so it must have been server side.

[ekwhite]

19. I vote for the Freeper idea, if it was server side.

That would be like them, to pull this kind of prank to stir up another controversy.

[onehandle]

14. I'm sure Hillary personally authorized this meaningful and effective attack.

And I'm sure it was a Clinton supporter that perpetrated the attack, because nobody else with any other interest would do this dastardly deed.

And "You're right, no human being would stack books like this."

[Citizen_Penn]

17. At this point, I'm not sure Hillary could organize

a BBQ.

[Yael]

21. The AP picked up on this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5657008&mesg_id=5657008