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I'd worry more about all the bogus tweets, Facebook status posts, flickr pics, etc. that the motivated will be spamming the world with tomorrow. Seems like the best way to win is to stealthily compromise the websites and computer accounts of several of the major teams, then submit the balloon list before anyone gets their act together.

One of my friends at MIT called this site to my attention yesterday, and they were awful at security then. They sent your GMail/Yahoo password over the network in plaintext for a feature that automatically invited your contacts, as well as their password on the Django /admin/ page (both of these features seem to be gone now). They were also running Django with DEBUG=True, which was fairly entertaining (off now). I'd like to think that they got their act together partially as a result of my bitching, but who knows.



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