European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 22 March | 84 comments (84 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Liberal Conspiracy » #cashgordon crashes and burns

In the last few minutes, the Conservative Party has taken down its Cash Gordon website after a major security failure which allowed twitter users to rick-roll the site using javascript embedded in a tweet.
To compound Tory embarrassment, one of the sites to which visitors were briefly redirected featured an image of three naked old men engaged in an explicit sex act, although the Tories can, perhaps, consider themselves lucky not have been Goatse-rolled at any point during today's debacle.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:38:44 AM EST
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and from the comments on the Telegraphs article about this page

Charlie Whelan has become an unwilling guinea pig for the Tories' online team - Telegraph Blogs

I'm shocked that the Telegraph would link to such disgusting images, the likes of which I have never before seen.
I shall be writing a letter to the editor at once requesting your dismissal. I hope you're suitably ashamed of yourself, Mr. Heaven.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:44:16 AM EST
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the Conservative Party has taken down its Cash Gordon website after a major security failure which allowed twitter users to rick-roll the site using javascript embedded in a tweet

Sounds about right. That's what you'd expect given

that Conservatives' campaign site against Labour/Unite links was "built in just a few days". What he doesn't tell you is that the system has been purchased off-the-shelf

The brainless should not be in banking -- Willem Buiter

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 10:56:50 AM EST
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European Salon de News, Discussion et Klatsch - 22 March | 84 comments (84 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)