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McCain website: breaching our security?

June 15th, 2008 3:29 pm by Jason B.

After seeing John McCain’s new commercial, “Safe,” in which he states he hates war, I decided to take a visit to his campaign webpage. I went ahead with clicking on his e-mail signup, but was greeted immediately with a security warning. Not knowing what to do, I took a screenshot of this intrusive prompt. Could McCain’s staff be sending a virus to me? Am I being watched as I click around his website? Why would McCain’s site prompt me with a security warning whereas Obama’s site invites me in?   The security warning:

“You have attempted to establish a connection with “johnmccain.com”. However, the security certificate presented belongs to “*.johnmccain.com”. It is possible, though unlikely, that someone may be trying to intercept your communication with this website.

If you suspect the certificate does not belong to “johnmccain.com”, please cancel the connection and notify the site administrator.”

My message to everyone: be careful when visiting McCain’s site! Might as well go to Obama’s instead.

McCain Security

(Though this post is in good fun, the security prompt was completely real)

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4 Responses to “McCain website: breaching our security?”

  1. Arnab Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    Well, this was an innocent typo mistake from the John McCain’s campaign website. I can’t believe they haven’t figured this out yet. It’s really sad that McCain people are not that active online. In Digg, I saw that McCain’s campaign account is not active since October last year while Obama’s campaign is active regularly.

    If they want to attract young voters they need to be a way more active. Well, it’s too late now. There is no way McCain is going to win and this is another example.

  2. Juan Says:
    June 15th, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    the only people voting for McCain are old farts and losers.

  3. Keith Says:
    June 16th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    Perhaps they should get a Windows admin in there to properly configure IIS. Oh, that means they will have to search for one and pay them lots of campaign dollars to do so. Oh well. Thank goodness Obama’s on open source.

  4. Bob Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 1:57 pm

    If you don’t hate America, you will vote for McCain. lol

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