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FBI: Lieberman Campaign, Not Hackers, Caused 2006 Website Crash

Anne Broache writes on the C|Net News Blog:

You may recall that during the heat of the 2006 primary race that prompted then-Democratic Sen. Joe Lieberman to go Independent, the Connecticut politician's Web site, well, dropped dead.

At the time, conspiracy theories abounded. There was twittering that liberal bloggers who backed Lieberman's antiwar Democratic rival, Ned Lamont (who went on to win the primary, by the way) were responsible for the site's inaccessibility, and Lieberman's own campaign maintained that a denial-of-service attack had occurred.

Well, nearly two years later, we finally know whom to blame: the Lieberman campaign's own system configuration.

posted by Fergie @ 4/09/2008 01:02:00 PM