Posted on 05/16/2007 2:16:27 PM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007
When visiting Duncan Hunter’s website today, you’ll notice that prior to going to the main site there is a screen with a quote about Jerry Falwell. If you look at the title of that page in your browser’s menu bar it says:
Chuck Hagel Official Web Site - watch latest news on Hagel.tv please contribute,…
The title bar from Chuck Hagel’s official site (hagel.tv) says the exact same thing as the vandalized title on Hunter’s site (including punctuation):
Chuck Hagel Official Web Site - watch latest news on Hagel.tv please contribute,…
Developing…
There will be much more of this (if it’s true) stuff, especially when Duncan Hunter starts getting more recognition and air time.
When I build a Web page, I rarely start from scratch -- I use a template that I've already tested and debugged, and then change what needs to be changed. The <TITLE> tag is one of the easier ones to miss, because it doesn't appear in the body of the browser window.
For the main design of the site, both campaigns almost certainly used an advertising and consulting firm. Such firms almost always have a partisan or ideological affiliation, so it's unlikely that the same company would have built both Hunter's and Hagel's Web sites. But hosts are usually techies who don't choose clients based on site content, and both sites, according to a traceroute, are hosted by rachkost.com.
But for a relatively simple change that needs to be done fairly quickly -- like putting up a splash page to react to breaking news -- they might have gone straight to the hosting company. If Hagel had a simple splash like that at some point in the past, a coder on a tight deadline would be likely to grab that as a template.
I find sabotage highly unlikely, because if someone managed to get access to the code, why change the title and stop there?
Don't be so sure. Hagel is a weasel.
On “Special Report with Brit Hume” tonight, they were going through the candidates and giving their impressions. They flashed Hunter’s pic for a second max as Brit introduced him, Barnes said “He always does well, he’s good on the issues, defense in particular”, and I heard someone (Krauthammer?) say “He should drop out of the race.” They then moved on to Gilmore. At the end, Krauthammer said Hunter nailed the immigration issue over Tancredo.
I was in and out of the room during the debate, but I was pretty annoyed that Hunter was getting NO QUESTIONS/ATTENTION when they seemingly kept going back to Huckabee, even Thompson. Please.
You couldn’t help but notice that. What was it, 3 questions? and 2 having to do with trade with China. He was never asked about anything else besides homeland security, which is a duh!! Plus, McCain slighted him when he said something about it taking a retired military person to be CIC at a time of war. He completely ignored the fact that Hunter is also in that brave category!
“Republican Debate: SC Edition
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.): I love Duncan, but geez, the guy only got 2 or 3 questions. Best thing I love about Hunter is he’s presidential. He has the charisma and the balls. And his voting record shows he’s very consistent.”
That is a quote from your link, which I second!
Posted this once before, so it seems we are not alone in feeling that way. How is that precious little baby, BTW?
I think your explanation sounds most reasonable. Thanks for doing the research on the IP numbers.
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Chuckie Hegel is a rodent.
You could probably lure him into a trap with a piece of rotten cheese.
He’s also a crybaby, if I remember correctly.
“Okay, at both debates, Hunter got slighted in terms of allotted time...and now this?”
EXACTLY
JulieAnnie gets star billing and Wallace and his buddy throw most of the questions at him, McClown and Romney.
The answers Hunter gave were to the point, laconic and precise. He is the man who should be sitting in the White House.
My prediction is, that like Ronald Reagan, if JulieAnnie is nominated, he will loose to Hillery and Hunter will come back in four years to clean her clock. He’s one of the youger contenders - 58. McClown is 70 - this is his last chance to screw up things.
Like everyone on Fox, Krauthammer has become a Rudy shill. As much as I hate to say it, I’ve lost some of the great respect I used to have for him because of it.
“It is possible that both sites are hosted on the same computer. Sabotage cannot be ruled out, but it could also be a bug in the hosting system, or an administrative error.”
That is doubtful. If the entire page had been replaced, I would say that was a possiblity, but not when only part of the page is changed.
“I find sabotage highly unlikely, because if someone managed to get access to the code, why change the title and stop there?”
The longer you work on a website illegally, the better chance of getting caught.
I did a view source. The whole of the page consisted of the basic HTML wrappers and a link to a graphic. Nothing else.
It would have taken less time to change the message than to change the title. In any case, it would be a matter of a second or two. Select all, paste, send.
If this was an attempt at a defacement or vandalism, it's one that a fifth-grader would be embarrassed to admit to.
No one hacked the server. It was a foul-up on the part of some grunt on the night shift.
The entire page was replaced. The main page of the Hunter site was replaced -- more accurately, intercepted -- with a splash screen with a statement on Falwell's death, with a click-through to the main page.
The media dont want you to hear from Hunter because he would rise to top tier very quickly and they want “their” candidate to have no serious challenges or challengers.
Given the insane hatred demonstrated since about three minutes after word of Falwell’s death...I’d say its clearly an overt act by the leftwingnuts and kooks.
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