September 16, 2008 10:44 PM UTC

A problem with Marilyn Musgrave's campaign website

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• by: databoypols

(How does a web admin get it this wrong? – promoted by DavidThi808)

UPDATED BELOW

Don’t look now, but there’s a problem with the website for Rep. Musgrave’s re-election. But no one has noticed, so I guess no one ever goes there?

I should call this diary of a madman…

Why would I go to Rep. Musgrave’s site?

https://www.musgraveforcongress…

I’ve been a proud Democrat all my life (except briefly when I was 12-13 — but that’s another story), but I had received an e-mail from her opponent, Betsy Markey (her own website is: https://www.markeyforcongress.com/ and doesn’t have any problems that I can see) — well, sorry about the parentheticals! I’ll get to the main gist:

Musgrave’s site had a security hole the size of the gap between her record and her campaign. I thought I could create an account like at Barack Obama’s site, and I did. I didn’t think I should be able to re-configure the whole site! So I did — sorta. I turned off the site, like unloading a gun that you find but you really, really wish you hadn’t found it because now you’re all responsible in case any one gets hurt and why can’t this ever happen to someone else…

Anyway.

So I wrote an e-mail to the administrator of the site. I wrote an e-mail to another account at the site. NO ONE HOME. So I took the site off-line. And I wrote another e-mail.

I wonder if anyone will notice?

UPDATE: Apparently more people read this blog than administrators of Musgrave’s campaign site read (and reply to) their e-mail!

4:15pm SITE STILL DOWN! And when I locked the door behind me, I didn’t leave a “backdoor” or keep a key. As I was trying to do the right thing — imagine if you went to a store during your lunch that you WOULD NEVER SHOP, but that somebody left the keys in the locks — or even left the ability to change the locks and make new keys! You could walk away — and from the comments below, some people might say I should have — or you could contact the store manager and lock the doors behind you.

Well, that’s what I chose to do. I tried to do the right thing, but did I? Time will tell!