{"id":8151,"date":"2006-08-08T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8151.html"},"modified":"2006-08-08T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T18:55:02","slug":"hack-attack-or-desperation-ploy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/hack-attack-or-desperation-ploy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hack attack or desperation ploy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wouldn’t be the Connecticut Senate primary if it didn’t include craziness like this<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On the day of perhaps the toughest political battle of his life, Sen. Joe Lieberman finds himself fighting a challenge in an unexpected battlefield — cyberspace.<\/p>\n

The Lieberman campaign says its Joe2006.com Web site has been down for almost 24 hours and the campaign has been unable to send e-mail messages from that domain.<\/p>\n

A message on the site says, “This account is currently under construction…please check back soon.”<\/p>\n

Web site hacks during political campaigns are nothing new. But e-mail is now used as part of a get-out-the-vote campaign during election days, making this cyberattack a bit more noteworthy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Naturally, the Lieberman campaign is blaming “political opponents” for the incident; the Lamont campaign has denounced the alleged attack. (There’s some question about whether the denial-of-service attack is as the Lieberman campaign described it<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

This has quickly become the<\/i> political story of the day. And if you’re feeling some relief right now that this is the last day of the primary fight, then we’re in the same boat.
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\nHere’s the latest:<\/p>\n

* The AP account of the story notes Lieberman’s charges, but neglects to mention<\/a> the full and categorical denial from the Lamont campaign.<\/p>\n

* Team Lieberman says it has filed a complaint<\/a> with the United States Attorney’s Office and other agencies regarding the alleged attack.<\/p>\n

* Lieberman’s internet consultant told<\/a> Paul Kiel that this is the second time the campaign’s website has been hacked.<\/p>\n

* Lamont’s statement on the incident is here<\/a>. Moreover, the Lamont team has offered<\/a> to go to Lieberman HQ to help try and fix the tech problem.<\/p>\n

* The networks, bored on an otherwise slow news day, are all over this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I have no idea what happened here, but I can’t help but wonder how this incident might influence tomorrow. If Lamont wins, will Lieberman use the alleged attack as an excuse to launch his independent bid?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It wouldn’t be the Connecticut Senate primary if it didn’t include craziness like this. On the day of perhaps the toughest political battle of his life, Sen. Joe Lieberman finds himself fighting a challenge in an unexpected battlefield — cyberspace. The Lieberman campaign says its Joe2006.com Web site has been down for almost 24 hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}