Barack Obama's hope.net site was HACKED AND DEFACED by someone who wrote "spread the word! Barack Obama has no security on his web site! Will his administration have no security?" [UPDATE 3:36 PM 3/31/2008: At the time of this posting "www.hope.net" still has the defacement, but "hope.net" does not. Is this a hoax? The red writing looks neat and tidy and without mispellings....
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Who owns the domain?
Heh. Whoever hacked it must have only gotten www.hope.net... or else obama's IT people (such as they are) already took control of hope.net back.
Nice font. Which one is it. I want that, too. (not handwriting.)
um, check the whois database... it doesn't seem that hope.net is actually official. barackobama.com on the other hand, has official campaign contact info. hoax.
I wonder if the changed whois has anything to do with how they hacked the site.
the links point to Hilary's website. what a dirty supporter.
It's a hoax. It's owned by the hacker group H.O.P.E. See www.archive.org and look up their old webpages.
This is the same site that's in his newest ads though. I think it's funny that it got hacked so quickly. Guess the dems don't have anything better to do than hack each others websites.
it's a hackers website, hope.net.. how sad for them that they have to fake hack their own site....
rediculous.. and rediculous to whomever published this article without doing proper research.
Hoax. Barack doesn't own the hope.net domain. Here's the whois lookup:
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Burton, Bill eq2g65yj3sb@networksolutionsprivateregistration.com
ATTN: HOPE.NET
c/o Network Solutions
P.O. Box 447
Herndon, VA 20172-0447
570-708-8780
Even if they did hack their own site, April fool's day is the right day to execute such a hoax. Either way, it's pretty funny!
Dirty Clinton supporter? How about dirty Obama supporter? Ever notice how many "bad things" have been happening to martyr Obama on this blog? Ever notice the free advertising space Clinton gets from stories like these? Or McCain? No wonder Obama gets more support in cyberspace, welcome to viral marketing...
Dirty politics, as usual. Even though the politicians don't have anything to do with this, it just goes to show the mentality of those who support these candidates. If you want bigger government, less security, and bigger taxes…go ahead and vote democratic. I prefer to make my donations to the needy on my own, and not through a wasteful and ineffective process. (Tax me, send $ to government, pay IRS to calculate if I paid enough, waste money figuring out whom to help, send my $ to needy) or (Let me keep my money so I can give more at church, and inject $ into the economy)
Funny enough it uses phalse.2600.com as it nameserver....
Happy April 1st everyone....
gunna have to say big HOAX on this one
It' April Fools Day. Duh.
oh man, they're good. HOPE started the hacks as of the 27th. Google's cache of their last page was on the 26th:
cached
Then, someone posed an innocent question to all the political groups to try to spread disinformation here:
post
And also, more disinformation here:
post
Notice this guy even registered the Obama e-mail address
barackobama.campaign@gmail.com here:
profile
And he posted a ton of disinformation to spread the hope.net link.
2600 Magazine's Off the Hook radio show on WBAI in New York (streaming online as well, find it yourself) just announced that it was indeed an April Fool's Joke which began when April Fool's Day started in New Zealand (which is 18 hours ahead of EDT.) They've had hope.net for a very long time.
The only thing that was 'hacked' was the mindless masses.
The major parties (Dem/Repub) should be boycotted anyways. They've been in power too long. Real progress won't come from old regimes.
Gotta love Emmanuel Goldstein and the 2600 guys. They do an April Fools Day prank hack every year. You can hear them discuss this one on their WBAI show, Off the Hook, here: http://archive.wbai.org/files/mp3/080402_190001oth.MP3
Does this surprise you, Hillary is probably next.
Bryan
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