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Hacking the Presidential Election

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the supreme-court-picks-anyway-now dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at a recent summit predicted US voters will be targeted by web-based dirty tricks campaigns as the 2008 election gets nearer. Spam, botnets and phishing all provide good opportunities to mislead voters and attack rivals with little risk of being caught, they say."

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  1. goatse by oliverthered · · Score: 1, Troll

    1: Install a botnet.
    2: Modify the hosts file so that the election website of you opponent points to goatse
    3: profit.

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    thank God the internet isn't a human right.
  2. Re:Catch and Release by Xonstantine · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm not sure what you mean about Ted Kennedy: where's his campaign crime? Surely you aren't that stupid? Oh wait, it's Doc Ruby, you really ARE that stupid. You're the guy that thinks Republicans have baby blood dripping from their fangs and Democrats walk on water.

    Maybe you heard about a little incident called "Chappaquiddick". Where an intoxicated Senator Kennedy drove off a bridge and into the water. He managed to get out of the car. Mary Jo Kopechne, however, did not. Kennedy's behavior was a profile without parallel in cowardice and negligent criminality that directly led to the death of Kopechne.

    And it's not just Ted Kennedy. Pretty much the entire Kennedy clan is unbelieveably tainted. Joe made his fortune by bootlegging and running stock scams. He may have not been the Pablo Escobar of his day, but he certainly rubbed shoulders with that crowd. The deal Joe made with the mafia to help JFK get elected isn't exactly a secret.

    Yet the Kennedy clan is basically untouchable in the Northeast. No matter how many people they kill or how bad they screw up (Ted isn't the only alcoholic / drug addict / drunk driving Kennedy that keeps getting re-elected), the folks in Massachussets and Rhode Island just love their Camelot Kennedy family.

    Of course no one wants their pork cut. But why do people elect people who have been shown to be lying or cheating even in the act of asking for their vote? How about you tell me? I guess a little bit of murdering, a little bit of whoring, a whole lot of boozing, and a whole lot of lying is ok so long as they vote the right way when it comes to abortion, welfare, gay marriage, and comprehensive immigration reform? I mean, how else can you explain why feminists carried water for Billy Bob Clinton even though he was an inveterate sexual deviant with a documented trail of sexual harrassment. Who cares what he's like with is personal life and that he personifies the type of person that feminists supposedly abhore...he fought the good fight on where it really mattered... Why is a former Grand Wizard of the KKK, Robert Byrd, embraced by the Democrats and the left? Because he votes the right way. Why has Lieberman been ejected from the Democratic party, even though on every single issue except the war in Iraq, he's quite liberal? It boils down to, vote the "right way", and all manner of personal and professional malfeasance can be ignored.