The Twitter web interface has been floored by a security flaw which is still spreading like wildfire across the social networking service. The vulnerability has affected numerous UK politicos including Sarah Brown, who forwarded many of her 1.1 million followers to a hardcore Japanese porn site. A new Twitter security flaw has been widely exploited [...]
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This blog post is sponsored by the Conservative Party
… well not quite. But CCHQ have taken out an advert for the search phrase “political scrapbook” on Google: Following the whole #CashGordon imbroglio set in train here, Scrapbook suspects Messrs Coates and Elder may be having a little fun. So if you see the link on Google do click through. Every visit will cost them [...]
Conservative Party 'Cash Gordon' campaign was designed by US anti-healthcare lobbyists
On the day the US Congress passed legislation providing health coverage to 32 million Americans without insurance, Political Scrapbook can reveal the Conservatives’ Cash Gordon campaign was developed by an anti-healthcare lobbyist described as “Karl Rove 2.0″. Writing on the Blue Blog yesterday, the affable Sam Coates claimed that Conservatives’ campaign site against Labour/Unite links was “built in just [...]
CCHQ is watching you as Tory high command co-ordinates right wing bloggers
Hats off to Marcus Brown at The Kaiser’s Toilet blog for this brilliant bit of sleuthing, uncovering the fact that someone in Conservative Central Office has the job of spying on every single mention of “David Cameron” on Twitter. No sooner had Brown posted a link to his latest blogpost than some poor intern from [...]
