Begin forwarded message:
From: "Serge M. Egelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 8, 2006 8:53:47 PM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IP] Lieberman blames Rove-like tactics for Web site
disruption
I've been following this and it's patently absurd that the mainstream
media is eating up every press release from the Lieberman campaign as
fact. Nothing that has been mentioned so far clearly indicates that
the site was broken into, much less by anyone affiliated with the
Lamont campaign. In fact the Lamont campaign offered to host
Lieberman's site during the interim (a fact not mentioned in the CNN
article).
Stranger, the error message on the Lieberman site (http://
www.joe2006.com) keeps changing every few hours. Lamont posted a
notice on his web site this morning denouncing the attack and calling
for the perpetrator(s) to cease and desist. Just recently the
Lieberman campaign posted a message saying "We call on Ned Lamont to
make an unqualified statement denouncing this kind of dirty campaign
trick and to demand whoever is responsible to cease and desist
immediately. Any attempt to suppress voter participation and
undermine the voting process on Election Day is deplorable and has no
place in our democracy." This was posted hours after Lamont had
already made such a statement, which leads me to believe that the
Lieberman is just trying to bilk this for all it's worth.
However, prior to the aforementioned message on the Lieberman site,
there was first a default message saying that the account had been
suspended. According to DailyKos (http://www.dailykos.com/story/
2006/8/8/181016/9275), Lieberman's provider's best plan costs $15/
month and allows 10GB of traffic per month. Given this revelation
and the initial error message, Occam's Razor would dictate that
Lieberman's site simply exceeded its bandwidth quota. What's even
stranger is that in the CNN article, they claim the Lieberman people
said they were victim of a DoS attack, and had to remove all files
from the site to track down the perpetrator. That simply doesn't
make any sense. Furthermore, the current message on the Lieberman
site says that they do not have email connectivity. According to the
DailyKos article, their mail servers (SMTP and POP) are both responding.
Finally, Wonkette has posted a correction to the article saying the
site was hosted by "2Dog Media." The company had apparently written
in to say that they hadn't hosted Lieberman's site in three months.
They claimed that Lieberman's campaign manager had opted to host the
site with a friend who would do it for very cheap (http://
wonkette.com/politics/top/breaking-last-post-partially-inoperative-
lieberman-campaign-dumber-than-previously-thought-192948.php).
serge
David Farber wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Justin Rood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: August 8, 2006 8:13:44 PM EDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Lieberman blames Rove-like tactics for Web site disruption
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dave,
I don't know if any of your tech-savvy readership has been
following the
kerfuffle in Connecticut over the Dem primary -- Sen. Lieberman
charges
shadowy Lamont forces "hacked" his web site; bloggers dig up a
growing pile
of circumstantial evidence pointing to missteps by Lieberman's own
campaign
-- but I would very much like to hear thoughts from anyone who has
been
following this.
Best,
Justin Rood
Reporter-Blogger
TPMmuckraker.com
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/08/lieberman.website/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Officials with U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's re-
election
campaign blamed "dirty politics" and "Rovian tactics" for what they
said was
an online attack on their Web site as Connecticut voters headed to
the polls
Tuesday.
<snip>
The Web site, http://www.joe2006.comexternal link, has been
unavailable
since Monday afternoon. Lieberman campaign manager Sean Smith
suggested that
the campaign of the senator's primary opponent, Ned Lamont, or his
supporters were responsible for the disruption. . . .
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