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August 10, 2006
Cheap Lieberman Website Not Hacked
Joe Lieberman’s accusation that Lamont supporters "hacked his site" may have been more than just a disingenuous, if ill-fated ploy to garner last-minute voter sympathy.
While no evidence has been produced to support the accusation, which still appears on Lieberman’s site as of today, Joe Lieberman might really believe his site fell victim to a vicious denial-of-service (DoS) attack.
But only because he doesn’t know anything about managing a website, bandwidth limitations or, for that matter, the difference between bloggers and hackers (the latter of whom, of course, should really be referred to as crackers -- and I ain’t talking about Pat Robertson -- but I digress ).
Investigators of the story point to evidence suggesting that the number of Internet requests to Joe2006.com simply exceeded the bandwidth allotted to the site, which was hosted on a $14.95/mo account at “myhostcamp.com.”
I suspect Joe and some members of his team have also made a fallacious mental connection between the buzz over their campaign being "blogged down" and activities performed by black hat hackers.
See: "Lieberman's 'hack' was no such thing"
"Joe Lieberman Website May Not Have Been Hacked - Report"
Posted by MJuhre at August 10, 2006 12:32 PM