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FWIW:
http://politicker.com/2012/10/meet-two-of-the-developers-behind-the-internet-october-surprise/
Meet Two of the Developers Behind the Internet ‘October Surprise’
EXCERPT
Jeff Hopwood is a developer based in the Midwest. We connected him to the “October Surprise” through the BuzzFeed account used to post the blurred documents tweeted by the “Surprise” site. That account, WIOWSA, was previously used to post a link to another website, Partislator, that tracks other political tweets. That post has since been deleted. A Daily Kos contributor named “partislator” also promoted a site called WhatIsOccupyWallStreetAbout.com, which has since been deactivated but was registered with Mr. Hopwood’s email address and phone number. When we called Mr. Hopwood today, he confirmed he was involved with the “October Surprise” site, Partislator and WhatIsOccupyWallStreetAbout.com, but he denied knowing anything about the coming document drop.
“I’m slightly involved,” Mr. Hopwood said. “I work more on the tech end of things.”
Mr. Hopwood said that, in spite of his past work on Occupy-related sites, the “October Surprise” site is not connected with Occupy Wall Street.
“It’s nothing involved in Occupy. We ended up using a BuzzFeed account because of last minute type things, and that account had some other things on it,” said Mr. Hopwood adding that the other activity has since been removed.
According to Mr. Hopwood, the “October Surprise” site was the work of “a group of developers that I’m friends with,” one of whom had been contacted to create the site by a third party. Mr. Hopwood claimed not to know anything about the people who asked him and his friends to make the site. His only stipulation for them was that the documents that will be revealed cannot be hosted on his server along with the site, because he claims not to know their contents.
“I don’t know the identity. I don’t know anything, political affiliation or anything like that,” he said. “Myself, like I said, I’m kind of limited involvement, and I’m trying to figure out what is going on myself, because it’s on my servers.”
There has been some speculation that the site may be part of a viral marketing campaign. Mr. Hopwood said he thinks this may be true because he and his friends were asked to put together the site fairly quickly, and he believes a political group would have been “more professional.”
“I tend to think it might be some type of marketing thing because of the way they contacted us,” said Mr. Hopwood, adding that he and the other developers put the site together in “like a half an hour.”