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The Penis Flood Attack

All they had to do was look at the two words in the captcha, enter the proper label for the ‘easy’ one (presumably that would be the one that the two optical scanners would agree upon) and enter the word “penis” for the hard one. If they did this often enough, then soon a significant percentage of the images would be labelled as ‘penis’ and the ability to autovote would be restored (one side effect, that was not lost on Anonymous, was the notion that for years to come there would be a number of digital books with the word ‘penis’ randomly inserted throughout the text.

via moot wins, Time Inc. loses « Music Machinery.

I kid you not.

The story is on how some Anon beat TIme, Inc when they hax00r’d the voting system, using something called the Penis Flood. Lulz.