Hackers Foul 'Ugliest Dog' Competition

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

A Monterey County Hearld article, via Topix.net.

[snip]

Poor Pee Wee Martini.

The 2-year-old Chinese Crested/Japanese Chin mix was leading in the online World's Ugliest Dog Contest, a canine 
version of the People's Choice Awards for the funny-looking critters.

Then computer hackers broke into the Sonoma-Marin Fair Web site and erased 40,000 votes for Pee Wee and stole 30,000 
from an Italian greyhound named Victoria while they were at it.

That put Lucille Bald -- a purebred Chinese Crested from Florida -- in the lead until fair officials noticed the vote 
theft.

[snip]

More:
http://www.topix.net/content/kri/2019462819014286286438739776264025216438

Enjoy. :-)

- ferg

p.s. My S.O. and I have two Italian Greyhounds -- and they are
beautiful. The one in the raticle must be a mutant. :-)


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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