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googleblog.blogspot.com — My friend aim's me: i HACKED GOOGLEBLOG !!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I don't believe him. Sure enough, it's hacked. But how do I know HE did it? Well....he added a special note for me. How did he do it? Some good old password guessing. Wanna know the pass? Let's just say it had something to do with their lovely rival M$.

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  • timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50Screenie: http://flickr.com/photos/timdorr/119179005/
  • vyoming, on 10/12/2007, -3/+45I had to actually check the URL twice to actually beleive that this story is true
  • mrlayance2, on 10/12/2007, -7/+31Don't piss off Google, they will find you with Google Maps!
  • natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25UPDATE: Google works fast, my friend is now having trouble logging into blogger with ANY account.
  • mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19It appears, by your "friend's" own admission that the blog wasn't hacked... That it was somehow misplaced or purged from the database and he re-registered the name with blogspot.

    I would like you to explain to all of us how this constitutes "hacking" in any way, shape, or form...?

    By the way, natmaster, your description of the link reads like an IRC chat in 1998. Thanks for the nostalgia.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15well, if he is telling the truth about it returning a 404 and registering the subdomain, he has done nothing illegal
  • lillydreams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12This isn't really a hack so much as jumping on an opportunity. I agree with some of the other posters above, it looks like "Trey" just decided to register a new blogger account with the same username as the google one, and it worked. Once again an overuse of the word "hack."
  • AllanG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12A history of the google hack : http://grinshtein.com/misc/googlehacked.html
  • natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11At request of the hacker, I have put our AIM conversation up on my new site, unaltered (except the password to google).
    Check it out:
    http://natmaster.com/conversation.php
  • aluminumpork, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10That is hilarious. Juvenile, but hilarious. If they fix the blog, here is a link: http://frostyle.servehttp.com/pictures/google_blog.gif
  • timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12Nah, I don't think they would consider someone still in school that only exhibited some minor hacking skills to get this done. A lot of it is the fault of someone at Google, really. They don't all have PhD's :P
  • TheGooseyOne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10see this is why digg beat slashdot into the grave...slashdot will probably have this story tomorrow and all they'll have to show for it is screencaps of the hack

    at digg, we got to see the hack in action, see new posts be submitted, and see it get taken down all in front of our eyes and it only took 14 minutes for the sotry to get to the front page)
  • cyrix, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11The blog's gone now.
  • lillydreams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6From reading the chat, it looks like Trey told you one thing, but actually did another. It looks like his hacking was just regestering an account. In the chat, he pumps it up to physically sneaking into the googleblog and getting rid of all the evidence and making it his own. In actuality, it looks like he just had a new account, lame layout and all.
  • davs, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9i wonder if he was dumb enough to use his real name and university...
  • mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Jesus Tapdancing Christ... Did you even bother to read content? Or any of the posts above yours?

    There was no hack, there was no password guessing, there was no even entering Google's blog.
  • eviscerator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7guessing a password hardly qualifies as hacking, still quite funny though..
  • BluParadox, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10I say it's BS that he hacked google, the post on their blog seems to indicate that someone just noticed that they deleted it and registered in their place...
  • TKDWILSON, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Wow. If I ever did something like that I would,

    1. Access free wifi somewhere where there is no camera.

    2. Make SURE my laptop had NO personal info on it.

    3. Start a NEW BLOGGER ACCOUNT!!!!

    4. Copy the whole Old Blogger site, and add something cool instead of what he did. Like. Headline:::::::::: We are now offering free 10 MB/s down 2 MB/S up wifi to the whole United States by December through a combo of Satelite internet and special software that will let your wifi card pick it up!!!!! Imagine seeing that on Google Blog!!!!!!!!

    Eric Wilson
  • sniper6121, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9This shot up to Diggs front page in 11 minutes haha
  • TugsMcgroin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6A simple google search turns up the Hackers myspace account! IANL, but I think he might need one!

    http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=1876559
  • omenmedia, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8don't tell me, all this time the password was "billgatessux"?
  • Tomholius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6LOL WE KILLED HIS SITE!
    Internal Server Error
    The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

    Please contact the server administrator, webadmin@kundenserver.de and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

    More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

    Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
  • Tomholius, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5To see the real site that is under construction check out http://www.lazykarma.com/index.php (hacked)!
  • mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think the average age of the userbase of digg is slowly declining, and the F5 pushing is at a peak...
  • TheGooseyOne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6wow its been nearly half an hour and the blog is still hacked....id love to know what the password has to do with microsoft
  • tomi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, bruteforcing is also guessing, but instead of guessing yourself, the program is doing it for you. But whatever. *shrug*
  • sovereign3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Even better... here's his Facebook profile if you're on Facebook.

    http://utexas.facebook.com/profile.php?id=7900008&l=41f5b25a0e
  • johnbillion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I don't care, it's still entertaining :)
  • mjaleo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Anti Department of Justice?

    Yes, because supporting music piracy and supporting terrorism are now the same thing.
  • estvir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5it's not 'hacking,' at all. i'm fairly certain registering a new accnt or resetting a password would not be classed as hacking.
  • GeneralFailure, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They fixed it. Googl0wned!
  • Jolene, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7And their blasted dog to!!
  • dekkerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It showed up in the RSS feed as well. Pretty funny.
  • balazs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2From his site: lazy karma.com
    "Regarding Google's Official Blog, I didn't hack it. I did re-register the username when I noticed, due to a Blogger bug, it had been deleted. "
  • robr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The story has made Cnet's News.com http://news.com.com/2061-10812_3-6054606.html?tag=nefd.aof
  • flagrant, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The page says he just saw that the blog was giving a 404 not found so he registered the googleblog name. He didn't hack anything. Someone just screwed up.
  • ryanchristopher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I did, at the time that was not on there. Check some of the screen shots people have posted.
  • mrbadak, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4is this worthy of the term hacking?
  • funkytaco, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6timdorr, I think I see a smallorange in that flickr pic.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/and-were-back.html
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Still not fixed... and I too would like to know what the password is.
  • johnbillion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Then why do you bother commenting to point this out? Why not just leave them to it?
  • jdgtrplyr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Who. cares.
  • jus1haz2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4http://www.lazykarma.com/ is his site


    ya and all his whois info is there haha I wonder what google will do?????
  • johnbillion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually, mjaleo, if you look at the screen shots people have provided you'll see the Google Blog was compromised!
  • ThePhilomath, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Back Up

    "Update: We've determined the cause of tonight's outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d'oh!) which allowed the blog address to be temporarily claimed by another user. This was not a hack, and nobody guessed our password. Our bad."

    So much for hacking.
  • timdorr, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Gotta get in the shameless plug while I still can :P
  • johnbillion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It's not ironic. Look ironic up in a dictionary.
  • CaptainWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Good lord, 15+ responses saying the page is down. It's almost like the internet wants to announce that the Googleblog is going to be fixed!


    It's down, by the way.
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