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The Perils of Political 2.0 McCain "Hacked"

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Chris Vallance | 17:09 UK time, Friday, 30 March 2007

Mike Davidson head of Newsvine were using one of his free MySpace templates without credit during their experimental journey into the world of the youngpeoplesinternets. Worse the Senator's MySpace page was also using an image hosted on Mike's server (very, very bad netiquette).

Mike's response? Well thanks to the mistake over the image it was very easy to change the Senator's position What follows Mike call's "the immaculate hack" because it didn't require any actual hacking at all:

So, the only thing necessary to effectively commandeer McCain's page with my own messaging was to simply replace my own sample image on my server with a newly created sample on my server. No server but my own was touched and no laws were broken. The immaculate hack. Abortion? The Iraq War? Probably too heavy to joke about. Gay marriage seemed like a more of a non-lethal subject to center the prank around. So with a few minutes in Photoshop and a quick FTP, a new John McCain was born...

But McCain isn't alone in getting this kind of treatment. The Daily Show

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