BIZARRO NEWS ITEM: Presidential hopeful John McCain found himself with egg on his face and in support of gay marriage earlier today after his MySpace page was “hacked” and the following message appeared on his site…

Dear Supporters, Today I announce that I have reversed my position and come out in full support of gay marriage…particularly marriage between two passionate females.

Turns out the “hacker” was Newsvine co-founder Mike Davidson, who readily admitted to the prank. How did he do it? It was pretty easy, actually — the lazy McCain web team designed the MySpace page using a template created by Davidson, without crediting him, and even went as far as stealing Davidson’s imagery, which he was hosting.

Davidson explains his hack thus…

So, the only thing necessary to effectively commandeer McCain’s page with my own messaging was to simply replace my own sample image on my server with a newly created sample on my server. No server but my own was touched and no laws were broken. The immaculate hack.

Bandwidth bandits, beware! …And what’s wrong with two passionate females wanting to get hitched?

(source: The National Ledger)