4chan rigs the Time 100 poll

APR 27 2009

4chan users exploited the unauthenticated voting application behind Time magazine's Time 100 reader poll, then defeated a later hash check by extracting the secret word from Time's own Flash app. They voted 4chan founder Christopher Poole to first place with 16,794,368 votes. They also ordered the top 21 finishers so that the first letters of their names spelled 'marblecake also the game'.