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FBI: Lieberman campaign, not hackers, caused 2006 Web site crash
From: "Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:01:31 -0400
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9915434-7.html?tag=nefd.top April 9, 2008 11:45 AM PDT FBI: Lieberman campaign, not hackers, caused 2006 Web site crash Posted by Anne <http://www.news.com/8300-10784_3-7.html?authorId=102> Broache 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 <http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-6103549-7.html> 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. A recent Freedom of Information Act request by the <http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/localnews/ci_8859029> Stamford Advocate, a local newspaper, turned up an FBI memo that concluded there was no evidence of an attack. Rather, "the server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured," according to an e-mail message dated October 25, 2006 from the FBI's New Haven, Conn., office. The site crashed because Lieberman officials were exceeding a 100-e-mails-per-hour limit, as configured by their system administrator, on the night before the primary, the memo went on. The system administrator "misinterpreted the root cause" of the additional Web traffic overwhelming the Web server and declared it was being attacked, the FBI memo said. Lieberman, of course, ultimately won re-election to the Senate as an Independent Party candidate during the November election. The 2000 running mate to Democratic presidential contender Al Gore has also been on the road campaigning for this year's presumptive Republican presidential nominee, John <http://www.news.com/Technology-Voters-Guide-John-McCain/2100-1028_3-6224285 .html> McCain.
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