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Old 04-28-2009, 10:21 AM   #1
Undertoad
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Time 100 most influential people poll hack

Great story on how Anonymous hacked the Time poll. They made Moot, the 4chan admin, the most influential person in the world. But that wasn't enough; they also controlled the first 21 entries:



To do this, not only did they use automated voting, they did a very sophisticated analysis of the ReCAPTCHA system so that they could continue to pwn the poll after Time took extreme measures to prevent it.
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