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Hackers Cook Time's Most- Influential Poll; Mag Shrugs

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 27, 2009 1:53 PM CDT

(Newser) – The results of Time’s online “world’s most influential person” poll have fallen victim to shenanigans, TechCrunch reports. Moot, leader of the devious web forum 4Chan, sits atop Time’s leaderboard, above Barack Obama and other usual suspects. And the first letters of the top 20 spell out “Marblecake Also the Game”—"marblecake" being both “lewd sexual reference” and online shorthand.

“Marblecake” can refer to the practice of embedding hidden messages on the web. Time was not entirely oblivious to the hack; its “technical team did detect and extinguish several attempts,” it notes, though, alas, not the felling blow. The magazine is philosophical about the incursion. “I would remind anyone who doubts the results that this is an Internet poll,” the managing editor said. “Doubting the results is kind of the point.”

An electronic road sign, hacked.
An electronic road sign, hacked.   (AP Photo)
Attendees are seen through a Black Hat logo during the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences.
Attendees are seen through a Black Hat logo during the Black Hat and Defcon hacker conferences.   (AP Photo)
Maybe Time should stay away from technological devices.
Maybe Time should stay away from technological devices.   (AP Photo)
The cover of Time Magazine's issue on their 100 most influential people in the world for 2007.
The cover of Time Magazine's issue on their 100 most influential people in the world for 2007.   (AP Photo)
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EpicFailGuy
Apr 28, 2009 10:37 AM CDT
GIRUGAMESH. Congrats 4clams.

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