Some time in the last two hours (we checked it during the press conference and it was fine), mysterious, incredibly dorky hackers “defaced” the personal blog of Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. After the embarrassingly nerdy credits and logo, there’s some text in what may be Farsi (but then, fuck do we know?).

Early reports indicate that the Ned Lamont campaign is almost definitely behind this.

In case anyone wants to take a crack at translating, the geeky (but clearly freedom-loving) losers’ message is reprinted after the jump.

Update: A translation, from a reader, indicates that the hackers have hacked not out of protest, but rather to leave an encouraging comment. It’s a big love-in (they “would like to thank you on behalf of all of Iran’s hackers”). Say what you will about Ahmadinejad, but the guy’s getting better at PR every damn day. The translated message is after the jump.

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Andrew Sullivan has been broken into, and not in a good way. As of right now, AndrewSullivan.com dispays a couple of broken jpgs and the message: “sorry i hacked you,” as well as the signature, “HackeD bY revie_perizh #carderx on DALNET.”

And here we were just reading in the Post that “[a]lthough it may feel good to blog, psychologists warn that going public with private musings may have ramifications.” Thought they were talking about getting Dan Rather fired or something… — WONKETTE MORE »

Reuters reports that the Department of Defense and the Federal Trade Commission have dispatched recruiters to the annual Las Vegas Defcon summit of computer hackers. Knowing how to manipulate the attendees’ addiction to intrigue, the recruiter-infiltrators cunningly assembled at a panel called “Meet the Feds.” FTC panelist Don Blumenthal says that his participation serves a dual purpose: “I’m learning while I’m here but I’m also getting the names of people I can maybe call on later so we have a better understanding as cases go along.” One such potential contact: a young man who “waved a pages-long manifesto before the panel” and demanded to know “why the federal government, and especially some of the law enforcement agencies, are destroying this country.” MORE »