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Re: Techcrunch hacked again

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You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

That ad was planned before we were hacked, the timing was a total coincidence. Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.

i hope this doesn't mean you have to keep that welcome ad page up as a matter of principle going forward.

Re: Techcrunch hacked again

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You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

That ad was planned before we were hacked, the timing was a total coincidence. Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.

As long as you're here, do you have any details on the hack? Your only post about the attacks seems to be this one:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/

Which hasn't been updated with details as promised. The lack of details here and the fact that you got hacked again makes it look either like you don't know how he got in, or that there were multiple vulnerabilities.

Re: Techcrunch hacked again

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Someone working at Techcrunch isn't qualified for their job.

That may be true, but unless you have some inside knowledge of the situation you can't know that.

They get hacked twice in a row, day after day has become the new routine. Someone there is totally doing their job you think?

Re: Techcrunch hacked again

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You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

I absolutely dislike techcrunch, but the idea that they somehow took advantage of this situation and put up that ad it ludicrous. I can tell you from experience that interstitial ads are not done on the spot out of no where. They are high paying ad campaigns that is negotiated well in advance with (usually) only a single type of product/services.

I don't visit techcrunch often (its actually hard-coded banned in my hosts file), but I can bet it was planned couple of days in advance for this weeks apple announcement, or if it is the unlikely scenario that it happened the same day that they were hacked; it was merely a coincidence.

You just don't wake up one day and put up an interstitial ad in high traffic site.

Re: Techcrunch hacked again

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You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

Can you explain what an interstital welcome.html ad is?

Re: Techcrunch hacked again

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You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

Can you explain what an interstital welcome.html ad is?

An interstitial ad is an advertisement put in between content - the welcome.html that was on TechCrunch today was an ad greeting ALL users of techcrunch with a little "click here to see the website" at the top.

Defined -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage

Re: Techcrunch hacked again

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You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .

I absolutely dislike techcrunch, but the idea that they somehow took advantage of this situation and put up that ad it ludicrous. I can tell you from experience that interstitial ads are not done on the spot out of no where. They are high paying ad campaigns that is negotiated well in advance with (usually) only a single type of product/services. I don't visit techcrunch often (its actually hard-coded banned in my ho…

I have to disagree that this is out of the realm of possibility - TechCrunch's ad team is very creative and moves fast, and their inventory is IN DEMAND!

They sold ads written on a WHITEBOARD shown on their streaming office cam for goodness sake.

Nearly every modern ad serving platform allows for interstitials, so this is within the realm of imagination.

But he didn't, so my crackpot theory is out the window.

http://www.beet.tv/2009/05/techcrunch-selling-ads-for-its-li...

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