Political Support Update: Experts Agree: Lieberman's Net Service Could Have Been Better

Thursday, August 10, 2006

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By Justin Rood

As we know, Conn. Democratic Senate candidate Ned Lamont has flatly and repeatedly denied allegations by Sen. Joe Lieberman's (I-CT) camp that he or his campaign were in any way responsible for what Lieberman is calling a hacker attack on his Web site and email.

Yesterday, two experienced D.C. consultants spoke with me about questions some have raised about the professionalism of Lieberman's technology consultants. The campaign hosted its site on a "shared" server with over 70 other sites, when it should have had its own machine, skeptical observers have charged; the level of traffic the site could receive was capped, so heavy traffic would allegedly shut it down; some said the software used by the consultants was nonstandard and indicitave of less-than-expert personnel; others faulted the campaign's dependence on companies which were not large, established organizations.

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