Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Governator hacked in dirty tricks campaign

A fantastic example of "hacking" (not) has happened to the Governator. It appears that his Democratic rival, Phil Angeledies, had his campaign team exploit a poor bit of security on the official Governor's website allowing them to access a speech in which Schwarzenneger says:

"I mean, they (Cubans and Puerto Ricans) are all very hot...they have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them and together that makes it,"

Phil Angeledies then leaked the audio files to the LA Times, which then quotes him as being outraged at the Goevrnator's "alleged" racism. What wasn;t mentioned of course was the remark was made in a closed meeting and the person that it was directed at has apparently said she was rather proud to be called "hot blooded."

The page which was here is no longer available. However, Google's cache still has it here

2 comments:

Benedict White said...

It is such a shame that you can't say anything without someone trying to misconstrue it and use it against you.

BTW I have added you to my blog roll.

Anonymous said...

I think that hacking is going to be the future way of getting these exclusives. Is any system safe from a determined hacker?