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Wednesday, March 28, 2007

John McCain gets "hacked" on MySpace

Republicans have gotten savvy to the internet and Senator John McCain is no exception. He recently set up a MySpace page to connect to the younger element. However, the staffer setting up the page used a template from another person without attribution and committed an internet faux pas (to which I have also been guilty) - he linked directly to the image on the other person's server.

In other words, every time someone went to Mr. McCain's MySpace page, that image was delivered through the other dude's server, at his expense.

Well, the dude struck back. Editing the original image on his own server, he effectively "hacked" McCain's MySpace page by changing the e-mail link image to one that indicated the Senator's support for gay marriage. Remote image linking justice dispensed!

Note: I'm going back through my own posts at this point to clean up my own image linking indiscretions.

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