Beverly Perdue left a backdoor in her Web site.
The Democratic gubernatorial candidate's programmers mistakenly linked several times on an issues page to the back-end site where her staff posts new releases.
In short: Anyone who finds the links could write on her campaign site.
"Welcome to the maintenance pages," read the linked page, created by Perdue's programmer, Liberty Concepts.
After Dome alerted the Perdue campaign Monday night, they removed the links before any would-be hackers took the opportunity to make mischief.
The links were in footnotes on Perdue's "Small Business First Approach" page posted Friday. They were removed a half-hour after Dome called the campaign.
Earlier: Perdue's programmers' Google search error.
Comments
Re: Perdue leaves the door open
March 4, 2008 - 9:15am — Isaac136I love that rice game, but have noticed that they don't update the vocabulary list very often.
Re: Perdue leaves the door open
March 4, 2008 - 8:18am — ryanteaguebeckwith (author)If I had posted that without alerting them, that would have been making news. The mind reels at what some of the Dome commenters would have come up with on Perdue's Web site.
P.S. That rice link is here.
— RTB
Re: Perdue leaves the door open
March 4, 2008 - 8:09am — twoshadesofblueNot really sure how a website technical error with no consequences discovered only by reporters and then remedied is news... add this to the wall of participatory journalism?
In other breaking news, Dome bloggers rescue kitten from trees, help elderly woman cross street, and contribute rice to Africa through clicking a google link. :)
Good job, Ryan.
March 3, 2008 - 8:08pm — AnglicoThat was a decent thing to do.