Time’s most influential list hacked
April 23rd, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Online Journalism
Catching up on news from last week that a plan to source Time magazine’s ‘100 most influential people’ list via an online poll was itself influenced by a group of hackers, reports the Industry Standard.
The group rigged the votes to spell out a message (’marblecake also the game’ (too cryptic for me – ed)) – see here for Paul Lamere’s post on how the hack was done (and what it has to do with cake).
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