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	Fantastic Hack on TIME poll

JohnWallace

4-28-2009 12:39 PM

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JohnWallace says:

Brilliant piece of work by moot. Congratulations.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a45eb22a-06f9-4ee3-b523-117282b6aa43/D2F6CE21-56AD-4098-8F08-0A05CFC23262/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/" href="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/" style="font-size: 11px;">musicmachinery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/">moot wins, Time Inc. loses</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/"><H2><A title="Permanent Link: moot wins, Time Inc. loses" rel="bookmark" href="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/"></A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/musicmachinery.com/img/BBBC15D9-88F1-4B95-B330-A4CED4EA253F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/">This morning Time.com published the final result for their<A href="http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894028,00.html"> annual TIME 100 Poll</A>.  Time reports  that the new owner of the title ‘Worlds’s most influential person, is moot’. What TIME doesn’t say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time’s incompetence.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/musicmachinery.com/img/97170260-1722-4BF3-AB62-3802EA770B25" alt="pollresults" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/">Looking at the poll results we see clear evidence of the hack.  The first letters of the top 21 finalists in the poll spell out ‘Marblecake, also the game’. Evidence of precision hackery for anyone to see.  And yet, Time says they rebuffed all attempts to hack the poll. Quoting from the time article:  “<EM>TIME.com’s technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts to hack the vote”</EM>.    Which leads me to wonder whether Time.com is being dishonest or is just plain incompetent. 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