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At Newsvine, we capitalized on an opportunity when John McCain and his campaign people hijacked some graphics from my MySpace design tutorial without permission
by mikeindustries 14y ago
At Newsvine, we capitalized on an opportunity when John McCain and his campaign people hijacked some graphics from my MySpace design tutorial without permission. He referenced/hotlinked images hosted on my server on his own MySpace page so one day I "hacked" his site by changing the graphics. The prank got us on TechCrunch immediately (no surprise), the local news in Seattle (kind of a surprise), and then featured on The Daily Show (huge f'ing surprise and still a career highlight!). Here is the coverage:
TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-hacked/ http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/27/john-mccains-myspace-page-h...
Local News: http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/03/king-5-covers-mccain-myspace-prank http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2007/03/king-5-co...
The Daily Show: http://www.mikeindustries.com/scratch/dailyshow.mp4 http://www.mikeindustries.com/scratch/dailyshow.mp4
- e03179 14y agoOT: But wow at the blog spam on the old TC articles.