I must say I was very disappointed to discover that the anti-apple fanboi ‘hacking’ of Glenn Wolsey’s blog (amongst others) by the pseudonym Malcor was a hoax set up by Macheist for the purpose of promotion.
Macheist is a website that resells Macintosh shareware.
When I emailed Glenn my condolences I asked him if he was aware of by what manner his WordPress blog had been replaced by a static rotten apple image. He claimed to be still investigating the attack and ignorant of how it occured. It turns out he was fully aware that his site was going to be modified in advance, and continued to play dumb after the fact.
He has since apologised but I fail to understand why any of them would willing incite concern in the online community as to the security of WordPress and Expression Engine blogs not to mention the webhosts who must have received some concerned emails from customers for the promotion of a group that makes money out of reselling shareware. The ‘hacking’ attempts didn’t make any reference to the Macheist promotion and in comments following the Macheist apology the Macheist group didn’t give any information suggesting they were behind it either.
I can’t say I feel at all interested in purchasing anything through Macheist in the future.
The Register has some more information about it.