Then the matter gets darker, the site now redirects to coverage of Michael Gove's speech and Dizzy Thinks explains why that is better than where the previous attack left it pointing
'the developers who were paid to create it didn't, it seems, protect against code injection. The Twitter feed was scrolling as people used the hashtag #cashgordon. The problem was that by inserting javascript into the Tweet comment it was possible to browser hijack people and redirect them elsewhere e.g. to old men getting it on as in Lemon Party*.
People began to do it spades and it's been taken offline and word is that it's being fixed currently.'
So that seems like a good idea ruined by lack of IT systems security; looks like the Conservatives are ready for government as that scenario describes so much of the current Labour government's IT system...
UPDATE: The Register has a good summary of this story.
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