In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll and new owner of the title World's Most Influential Person is moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey.
Since Moot launched 4chan.org in 2003, the site has given birth to Internet memes as diverse as Lolcats and Rickrolling.
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moot and 4chan gamed the vo... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Alan | April 28, 2009 4:52 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
moot and 4chan gamed the vote; you may also notice that the first letters of the winners spell "marblecake also the game" (vertically).
Here's how they did it:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/17/time_top_100_hack/
h/t Bruce Schneier - http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/04/hacking_a_time.html
1. Posted by Alan | April 28, 2009 4:52 PM |
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Posted on April 28, 2009 16:52
2. Posted by LaMedusa | May 1, 2009 2:37 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Tina Fey's in there?! lol! bah-whoosh! that's the sound of the last of the U.S.'s values system goin' down the potty.
2. Posted by LaMedusa | May 1, 2009 2:37 AM |
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Posted on May 1, 2009 02:37