Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Silly Season Begins in Connecticut
Joe Libermann says his opponents, or goons of his, hacked his Web site, causing it to go to its knees late last night. His opponent, millionaire Ned Lamont (D-Crazyville) says Libermann didn't pay his bills. Joe2006.com is now offline on election day, which could affect turnout for Libermann.
Now anyone who knows technology knows that a simple hack like this is easy. You can either change the DNS entry in the Internic and redirect it to another IP address. And to top it off, these goons didn't just post that the site was taken down due to a lack of payment, they did a denial of service attack -- basically setting up a machine to continuously ping (send packets of data to a particular server) with a spoofed outgoing IP address. This DoS attacks are pretty common in today's Internet, but they rarely take down an entire server or Web site.
Time for Lamont's goons to put a stop to their tactics. Then again, Terri McCormick's goons here in the 8th District might get some ideas from Lamont. Afterall, as Kevin from Lakeshore Laments reports, John Gard's Web site was hacked a few weeks ago.
Labels: Election 2006
