Hackers leave Jon Stewart a goodbye note on Trump's website

Aug 4, 2015 09:55 GMT  ·  By

On the eve of Jon Stewart's last The Daily Show edition with Comedy Central, the hackers from Telecomix Canada have defaced Donald Trump's website to post a farewell message.

Telecomix Canada, a smaller branch of the Anonymous group, made up mainly of Canadian hacktivists, was previously involved with civil right movements in Canada and other campaigns trying to raise awareness of children deaths in war zones, especially in the Middle East.

According to group's internal rules, anyone can affiliate with them and take on any topic they want to "make right."

The irony is strong in this one...

Apparently, someone in their ranks has a very fine humor, wishing Jon Stewart goodbye from Donald Trump's own website.

A long-winded message was posted and lasted on trump.com for several hours, which you can read in its full entirety on Pastebin.

The entire message is quite ironic if we take into account that Jon Stewart has been one of the most loud-voiced critics Trump has had through his current presidential campaign, putting out one acid video after another.

While the Washington Times reports that new poll numbers are placing Trump at the top of the heap between Republican voters, Mr. Trump is also increasing the number of critics.

Through incendiary comments on a large number of topics ranging from Mexican immigrants to Nazi-themed tweets, Mr. Trump has irked the ire of the Canadian hacktivism group, which now wanted to congratulate him for being "America’s first openly [expletive] Presidential Candidate."

Mr. Trump's "3 dollar website" CMS seems to be at fault

"The defacement is most likely a basic compromise of the website's CMS. The CMS looks to be pretty basic and, to be perfectly honest, pretty awful," says Trevor Pott from The Register, after analyzing trump.com's source.

"A cursory look at the source code for trump.com's main page reveals a number of attack points and directories that have been 'cleverly' obfuscated from standardized penetration toolkits by adding an underscore in front."

This is also ironic as well, if we remember that Mr. Trump criticized the Obama administration's $5 billion investment in healtcare.gov, a website that rarely works as it should even now.

At that time, Mr. Trump said, "I hire people, they do a website. It costs me $3," to which the hacktivists ironically responded, "We honestly take great umbrage with Mr Trump’s ‘3 dollar websites’ comment [...] so in the spirit of Mr Stewart’s work - the irony and truth of leaving a thank you note for Mr Stewart on trump.com is meant to educate decision makers."