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Hacking the Governator

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the call-that-a-hack? dept.

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

    Shouldn't the RIAA be suing over this?