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Now, obviously I don’t condone this sort of thing, but it certainly does have a certain amount of amusement, and I appreciate anything that injects a bit of mirth into my daily routine. BoingBoing, blog to beat all blogs and information service to far more people than you’d like to think, got hacked a few minutes ago. In case they’ve fixed it by the time you read this, here’s a screenshot of the damage:
I sincerely hope the hacker didn’t do anything stupid (such as mess with the archives or the db files if they weren’t in MySQL). If so, they should be fried, hanged, shaved and then burned, cause that’s just not cool. As long as all he/she did was overwrite the index file or rewrite the .htaccess file, I’d say it’s a Halloween prank and nothing more.
Unless BoingBoing is self-pranking, but that’s also not entirely cool and more than a bit strange. :)
Update 4:07pm: It could also just be a confuzzled server or a botched domain registry. Check out freedonia.com.