Perdue's backdoor
I was going to hold off on this, but since Dome is out there with it...
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So I got a call this afternoon from someone who suggested I look at a certain page on Bev Perdue's website and click a certain link. When I did, it plopped me right into the campaign's content management system. Apparently, I, or anyone else who clicked on the magic link, could add, delete or edit content on Perdue's blog.
The CMS page looks like this (click to enlarge):
See that button that says "Edit." It seems to work, although I'm not going to go monkeying with content on a political candidate's site.
I've sent an e-mail to Perdue's folks to see if they're aware of the problem or if they're just trying to engage in a really new kind of open source campaigning. And no, I'm not going to tell you how to get in there and cause mischief.
Update: The offending links appear to have been disabled.