Joe Lieberman is claiming his campaign website was hacked. The site has been down since 7 AM. Lieberman claims the site was hacked by Lamont supporters to prevent voters from getting information about the senator on the day of his primary against Lamont. However he doesn’t have any proof of who or what is responsible. His campaign has submitted the matter to the Connecticut attorney general.
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From what I can see, the site is hosted on a third-party web hosting site with pretty small bandwidth limits. My guess (and this is only a guess) is that they hit their bandwidth cap for the month in the day before the election, and haven’t figured it out yet.
Now, whether some pro-Lamont person (or people) intentionally ran the bandwidth out is an entirely different question. That wouldn’t be “hacking” but it would be intentional sabotage, and thus, rude. Illegal? Probably not, but I’m not the lawyer….
JOhn.
It’s entirely possible that some overzealous Lamont supporters did exactly that, but that cheesy “hacker” message on the site totally tripped my alarm bells that the attack was faked.
Mind you, Jane Hamsher did the incredibly stupid thing of posting a pic of Joe in blackface last week, and she got smacked around for that, so it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. I’m just angry that yet again, people are so focused on a crap side issue that the real meat of the matter is getting trivialized.
Here’s a good article over on DailyKos with some technical explanations that back up my previous comment:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/8/8/144119/5628
JOhn.
I’d agree that just using up the bandwidth is probably not illegal, esp. if it just happened naturally from people visiting the site. A denial of service attack or some such would be another matter.
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