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Hacking the Governator

mytrip writes, "The Democratic rival to California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged that his aides were responsible for obtaining a controversial audio file, in which the Governator was heard disparaging members of other races, in a move that has led to allegations of Web site hacking. A source close to Angelides told CNET News.com that it was possible to 'chop' off the Web links and visit the higher-level 'http://speeches.gov.ca.gov/dir/' directory, which had the controversial audio recording publicly viewable. No password was needed, the source said." And jchernia notes, "As an aside, the California Highway Patrol is running the investigation — maybe the Internet is a truck after all."

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  1. If that's hacking by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    then my grandma is a copyright violator. Oh, wait ...

  2. Wow, they must be really good... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chopping off URLs.... oh my, these h4x0rz are scary as shit! Hide your megabytes, kids!

  3. Re:Disparaging Comments by causality · · Score: 3, Funny

    You're thinking too objectively about it. Just relax and let it be played enough times on the media and it will try to become true.

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  4. Disparaging? by RelliK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nice spin there. All he did was call one lady hot. BFD! As much as I think the governator is a joke, this is just getting ridiculous.

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  5. Re:gross generalizations by mordors9 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I never hear about them complaining about the large penis stereotype though...

  6. Re:gross generalizations by snuf23 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which is why I always feel bad for the black guys out there with small dicks. On the flip side thanks to the reverse stereotype for Asian's I bet girls think "Wow not bad for an Asian" when they find an average weiner.

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  7. all caught up now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, someone didn't hack a web site, and someone didn't make racists comments. Right then, all caught up on the news.

  8. Re:Disparaging members of other races? Hardly by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny
    "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."

    Actually, Arnie is being racist. His comment implies that those who don't have the "black blood" and the "Latino blood" don't "make it." Whatever the hell that means.

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  9. The Governor's sharing audio files? by Panaqqa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shouldn't the RIAA be suing over this?

  10. Re:Disparaging Comments by cashman73 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't really see what the problem is here, either. His earlier comments about, "crushing your enemies; seeing them driven before you; and hearing the lamentations of the women," didn't seem to hurt him to bad,... ;-)

  11. Re:gross generalizations by metallic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Being a person of Irish descent, I would say thank you for the whiskey!

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  12. Re:gross generalizations by GrievousMistake · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's more of a fetish, though. If they kept going on about how Japanese women were very shy, or how they all had very big and bouncy boobs, or how they all pilot mechas, or how much they all enjoyed tentacle rape, that would be a racist generalization.

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