moot of the Year

Just a little discussion about the Time Person of the Year contest.

The fact that moot, founder of the 4chan forum (probably NSFW) won the competition was funny enough, but that Time's list spelled out the phrase "Marblecake, also the game" is hilarious, showing a level of organized hacking unseen until this point.

An explanation of what "Marblecake, also the game" means:
It's a little NSFW, so I'll keep it general. The whole phrase can be winded down to "You Lost" - Hence, you lost at Marblecake, and you also lost at the game. The game is self explanatory, but the marblecake takes some in depth knowledge at 4Chan's humor (juvenile and gross). For those that want to look it up, Marblecake is an explicit (and frankly disgusting) sexual act.

So how did they carry out their little act of subterfuge to rig moot as number one (and consistent winner Rain as dead last)? They set up bots to attack the Time servers, voting their choices to the number they want. Of course, Time has captchas are there to stop such an attack, but 4chan found an easy solution.

Time's Captcha has a fatal flaw in it: If enough people get the same captcha wrong, it assumes that the problem is with the picture, and count the vote even if the wrong thing is inputted. Hence, if enough votes say that a particular captcha says something, Time counts it as correct. In regular 4chan fashion, they simply inserted the word "Penis" into every captcha, until Time recognized it as the right answer.

This proves that 4Chan, the disruptive army of Anonymous (which is the top Google choice, by the way), has increasing power as the internet takes over our lives. The only people that can stop them now is themselves...