Recently, members of 4chan organized a hack on the Time 100 poll to vote moot (the person who started 4chan) as the world’s most influential person, and to order the remaining people into a message: marblecake also the game.

They managed to do it because Time didn’t secure their voting system, and entered several million votes before Time caught on. Time finally responded by putting reCAPTCHA onto their form, which is what I would do too. But the interesting thing is that the /b/tards were single-minded in their goal, and continued their mission by trying to hack the captcha! It’s interesting to read how a mass effort to beat the system would work.

What I don’t understand is why this year’s vote was not even that weird. Who the heck is Rain, and why were they the most influential in 2006??

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: hacks, webgeek