Comments on: Hacker redirects Obama's Web site to Clinton's

Visitors to section of Obama's site got redirected to Clinton's site over the weekend after someone exploited cross-site scripting vulnerability.

[Pete Bardo]

That's a real confidence booster!

Whether it was due to a lack of understanding on the candidate's part, or a lack of judgment in hiring the web site designer, this does nothing to raise my confidence level in this candidate. If his web site isn't secure, .....

I'm left wondering if the same thing is possible on the other candidates' sites.

Disclosure: I'm Libertarian. I probably wouldn't trust any of the Republican or Democrat candidates anyway.

[cidman2001]

Well......

I'm not sure porrly written code reflects on the candidate or not. That could be a stretch...unless you're Sean Hannity. As an independent, I'm with you on the trust level of either party. I still think that a McCain/Lieberman ticket would be interesting to say the least.

[Hernys]

It actually speaks even worse of the alternatives

Barack Obama didn't achieve perfect security on his web site. Bad, but not as bad when you consider 90% of web sites are not secure either.
Now, his opponents in the presidential race apparently are dishonest enough to deface his site (either them or their supporters). That's much, much worse.

[BHCS]

Confidence...

Well the best is yet to come. Just wait to see what happens to whoever's elected. Will then keep the IT staff that lost several years of White House/RNC emails or will dump em for someone with some creds. Incidentally, Dr P's site has been hacked too, so don't get too holier than thou.

[close5828]

I thought it was pretty funny.

Perhaps there was nothing "political" about this but it was more of a practical joke?

I think some ppl are reading way too far into this than they should.

Viva Independents! :-D

[mshidden]

Hilary?s is always putting words in his mouth!

Now the big question is how funny is that.

[likes2comment]

Better than Obama putting it

in Hillary's mouth