I received this email today. I was curious of the authenticity of the email and the numbers affected and, after some digging, learned that it is, indeed, real (LinkedIn Blog: Taking Steps to Protect Our Members):
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reCaptcha Hacked on Time Inc. Poll
This morning Time.com published the final result for their annual TIME 100 Poll. Time reports that the new owner of the title ‘Worlds’s most influential person, is moot’. What TIME doesn’t say is that their poll was so totally manipulated that the results of the poll are not an indication of who is the most influential, but instead they stand as a monument to Time’s incompetence.
Read the original and in-depth article on MusicMachinery.com:
http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/
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