Hack teh vote

I guess I was a little too flippant in Monday's search term safari. Seems those crazy kids are trying to hack the vote:

Service has been restored to the website that handles Ohio's voter registration and elections information after hackers breached its defenses. The intrusion is just one of several assaults confronting the Secretary of State's office as tensions mount over next month's presidential election.

IT workers took the site down on Monday to "detect and prosecute any illegal breach of our voting infrastructure to maintain voter confidence," Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner said in a statement. On Tuesday, the site returned, although parts of it remained in "static" mode, meaning a campaign finance search database and other features were unavailable.

Sheesh. Hope these guys are more l337 than that Democratic politician's kid who got into Sarah Palin's email. And the Ohio techies are busy doing damage control:

Brunner's office has not disclosed details of the breach, except to say that voters' personal information was not accessed.

So they didn't know enough to keep those meddling kids out of the server farm, but don't worry your pretty heads about your info. Well, that's sure a relief!

In other security news, the Federales rounded up computers used by the doofus who claimed that he broke into Hannah Montana's Miley Cyrus' Gmail account. Seems risque pix of the teen idol were involved.

I'd say, just turn the loser over to Billy Ray. Guy will have more than an achy-breaky heart when the can of whoop-ass gets closed up again.

And what is with Tennessee, anyway? Both the Palin hacker and this guy are from the Volunteer State. No offense to Tennesseans, but y'all got some l4m3r hacker wannabes down there.