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Tuesday, July 10, 2007

MiShapps

I don't think I really need to write anything much on this one - rather I'll stick to tracking the response... but I think I deserve a good laugh at a man who claimed that we pay people fifty quid to put a poster up (and then failed to supply any evidence whatsoever).

Mark Pack earns his spotters' badge (and a hearty slap on the back) by catching Grant Shapps red-handed in a clumsy astro-turfing attempt on YouTube.
Tim Ireland then takes time out from laughing himself silly and e-mails Shapps - who then comes back with the piss-weak excuse that he had set his password as "1234".
Guido and Unity laugh themselves silly, too...
... as do Jonathan Calder, Paul Walter and Chris K.
Iain Dale decides to be the only person on the Internet to leap to Shapps' defence and provides a bit more hard-to-swallow detail... apparently Shapps waited two days before trying to change his password!

Clearly we're to believe that the Tories' so-called e-campaigning expert doesn't know the first thing about internet security.

And this is the man they called their "answer to Chris Rennard"!

UPDATE: As Unity points out in Dale's comments:

"Should point that in order to get into Shapps' YouTube account, our 'mystery commentor' would need to know the exact e-mail address used to register the account (which YouTube doesn't disclose) as well as 'guess' the password."

This tale just gets taller and taller! Someone should tell Shapps it's time to come clean now before the papers get hold of it...

# posted by Joe Taylor @ 4:30 pm

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Mr Unity is incorrect - I log in to YouTube with a username rather than an email address every time.

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Anon - depends whether he uses a YouTube or a Google account, I think. Happy to stand corrected if that's wrong though.

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YouTube still allows existing users to log in 'old skool', so username and password is all that's required in many cases.

I'd say something about 1234, but you've already said it all... the only person buying it is Dale

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