An Inconvenient Truth: Al Gore's Blog Gets Hacked

This'll teach Al to post more often, I guess (his last blog post at the time of this writing was late 2006). As Al Gore was meeting with President Bush yesterday, in the tradition of American Nobel Prize winners getting a photo-op with the Prez, it was revealed that the blog on Gore's site, ClimateCrisis.net, has been hacked.

It looks, as far as I can tell, like just the blog section has been hacked. However, looking at it, a user couldn't see a difference --- unless they looked at the source code (above, click to enlarge).

Obviously hackers got in through a hole and hacked the source. But invisible, what good is it? Well, for one thing, hidden like that, it'll take some time for people to catch it (hello, Webmaster, that hack is still there!). But the important thing for the hackers is that a search engine like Google will pick up the links as they crawl the site. And, since Gore's site has such a high PageRank, Google will rank the links higher.

Of course, no one really searches for Nexium or Cialis online anyway, do they?