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Political, but not from this side of the pond...

If your attempt to attack your political opponents and make a splash among the social networking intelligentsia goes utterly tits-up because you failed to take even the most basic security precautions regarding the data you gleefully snorted up from other people... if in fact you actually let those

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It is. And hilarious, because I wouldn't get paid for my $500 webdev contracts if I failed to sanitize and escape user-entered strings before letting them anywhere near a place code might execute... but in the building of this $15,000 site, no one thought "I wonder if anyone will thing put javascript or HTML in their tweets."

And terrifying, because once again, their incredibly stupidity will be portrayed as "hacker attacks." Rather like if you put your valuables out on the sidewalk at night and claimed you were victimized by criminal masterminds when you found things missing in the morning.

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At this point, they're either busy getting paid to test systems by corporations, or else holding South/Central American gambling sites for ransom using their zombie botnets.