This has got to be one of the best pranks I’ve seen in awhile. In short, John McCain’s MySpace page was using a tem­plate from Mike Davidson’s. That’s fine, except that McCain’s page was pulling images directly from Davidson’s server, using up Davidson’s band­width in the process.

If you’re unfa­mil­iar with the process, let’s just say that it’s a big no-​no to use some­one else’s image on your site by link­ing to the image on their site. It means that each time your page is loaded, the image has to get down­loaded from their site. If you going to steal someone’s image, at least have the cour­tesy to upload it to your server first.

David­son decided to do a little swicheroo with McCain’s MySpace images:

Get the full story at Newsvine.com.

• Hack­ing John McCain

Via Daring Fire­ball.