What a chump...

Remember when the campaign of Senator Joseph I. Lieberman implied back in 2006 that supporters of Ned Lamont had hacked and disrupted his Web site? Well, maybe you don’t, but it caused an uproar at the time. Now comes perhaps the final word, the result of freedom of information requests filed by The Stamford Advocate.
The site crash occurred in the run-up to Mr. Lamont’s upset victory over Mr. Lieberman in the August Democratic primary. But Mr. Lieberman managed to win re-election as an independent in November. In December, the authorities declared that the site had not been hacked, but did not confirm that it had simply been overloaded, as seemed likely.

Now it appears the culprit was indeed a badly configured site and too much e-mail traffic, according to an Oct. 25, 2006, F.B.I. e-mail message turned over to The Advocate in response to its freedom-of-information filing.

“The server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured,” the e-mail memo said. “There was no evidence of (an) attack.” According to the memo, the site crashed because Lieberman officials continually exceeded a configured limit of 100 e-mails per hour the night before the primary, The Advocate reported.

“The system administrator misinterpreted the root cause,” the memo stated. “The system administrator finally declared the server was being attacked and the Lieberman campaign accused the Ned Lamont campaign. The news reported this on Aug. 8, 2006, causing additional Web traffic to visit the site.

“The additional Web traffic then overwhelmed the Web server. … Web traffic pattern analysis reports and Web logging that was available did not demonstrate traffic that was indicative of a denial of service attack.”

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...-its-own-site/

time for a joepology

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[Frontiersman editorial, 2/7/97]