John McCain's MySpace Page "Pranked"

Started by TehBorken, Mar 28 07 07:18

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There was a little problem with presidential hopeful [a href="vny!://www.myspace.com/johnmccain"]John McCain's MySpace page[/a].

Looks as though some staffer didn't read the fine print of the "credit" clause when selecting a template for the page. The template author and CEO of [a href="vny!://www.newsvine.com/"]Newsvine[/a], Mike Davidson, noticed this and didn't care too much. But the McCain page was pulling an image from Davidson's site, costing him bandwidth every time someone visited the candidate's MySpace page. So Davidson changed the image in question to read: "Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage... particularly marriage between two passionate females." Here is [a href="vny!://mike.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/26/633799-hacking-john-mccain"]Davidson's account of the "immaculate hack"[/a].

Here's a Google cache of the page:

[a  href="vny!://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:vny!://www.myspace.com/johnmccain" title="209.85.135.104" rel="nofollow"]vny!://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:vny!://www.m[nobr]y[wbr][/nobr] space.com/johnmccain[/a]
 
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