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Jan 26
2010
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Tech Blog Goes Down on Eve of Apple Tablet DayPosted by meggebrecht in TechCrunch, Tablet, iSlate, Hack Attack, Apple   |
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TechCrunch, the Michael Arrington-founded blog that people either love or love to hate, got hacked Tuesday morning at 1:30 a.m. ET. The site went down for an hour, came back online briefly, and then went down again a couple of hours later.
Rather than being treated to TechCrunch's usual commentary, visitors were greeted with the message, "What a [expletive] useless hack, isn't it? Bleh," and were redirected to a porn site.
As of 11:00 a.m. ET, TechCrunch was "still gathering information on how the site was compromised," and promised to update users when more information was available.
Bored hackers bring content sites down on a regular basis, but you have to wonder whether the hacker behind this attack got his dates mixed up. Jan. 27, after all, is practically the Super Bowl for the technology world this year -- the day that Apple can finally make all of these tablet rumors go away. Jan. 26 is, well, a Tuesday.
"There's no such time as a ‘good time' to be hacked of course, but one can only imagine that today is a better day for TechCrunch to be hacked than tomorrow," said Graham Cluely, senior technologist consultant for security vendor Sophos, on his blog. "That's when the site will be expecting a large amount of traffic as millions of people around the world look for information about the new iSlate/iPad/iTablet/iDontKnowWhatItWillBeCalled due to be announced by Apple."
Maybe the hackers are just getting warmed up?
While we're waiting to see whether people take to the streets tomorrow when they find out that the only news available on the Internet is related to Apple's tablet announcement (or non-announcement), why not check out the newest -- likely fake -- images of the tablet?
The latest in a seemingly endless supply of Apple tablet photos purported to be leaked by the usual reliable sources, these, posted by UI designer Dustin Curtis, have sparked some lively debate. This, despite the fact that they essentially just show a flat screen sitting on a MacBook keyboard. Time to move on, people ...
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Here's the big question I have. What will the tablet be able to do that I can't already do with a $300 netbook? I'm willing to be surprised, but once we finally know what the Apple Tab is all about, it will be interesting to do a direct comparison.