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Setting the record straight on StopIggy.com and Thunderline

One of the threads in the story behind the ankle-biting website StopIggy.com devoted to defeating Michael Ignatieff's bid to lead the Liberal Party of Canada was the role of Thunderline in its creation. Until it was revealed that Marsha Akman, a Liberal Party member from Montreal, was the author of the site, the focus was on David James of Thunderline.

David has contacted me, hoping to provide extra details and to set the record straight. I'm posting his email as is (minus a few technical comments about my site).




From David James:

Thunderline did not design the stopiggy website. It was designed by a coder out of Toronto who we worked with in the past and allowed some space on our server. He designed and posted the website. Once we found out it was a smear campaign, we had him pull it down and relocate it.

Also, about Justin Davis. Many many years ago, he had approached us about doing some legitimate work after Norlink. We met a couple times and decided not to go anywhere with it. Unfortunately in that breif time, he had a call from a newspaper and asked him about hacking. He droppped the name Thunderline as his employer.

My lawyers wrote a letter to G&M to retract the statement that Justin worked for ThunderLine and that we were in the business of Internet Security. Their response was that any publicity is good publicity.

Funny to see how one persons comments can echo so many years later.

We make websites for small businesses and have been doing it for over ten years. The company does not align itself politically, although personally I am currently favouring Liberals and am crossing my fingers that Iggy will do some good things.

As for the stopiggy website and Justin Davis,... one does not have to roll in the tall grass to get tics. Sometimes if you happen to be standing by the roadside looking at the distance across the field, they jump at you without you knowing and all you can do is pick them off and leave.

Thanks.

David
Thunderline

P.S. I have not used Frontpage or any WYSWYG for about 8 years. Hand code is the only way.

I also hand-code my pages, but then all serious bloggers do.

Justin Davis is a convicted hacker who claimed to have worked for Thunderline, a claim that was printed up in the Globe and Mail and then repeated on this blog.

Unlike the Globe and Mail, if David thinks being associated with Justin Davis is bad publicity and does not want it, I am happy to report that the connection does not exist and make a correction to the original posting.

And it didn't even need a letter from a lawyer.

So there -- the record is set straight. As for StopIggy, it's still up.


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Comments

Censorship is becoming America's favorite past-time. The US gov't (and their corporate friends), already detain protestors, ban books like "America Deceived" America Deceived (book) from Amazon and Wikipedia, and fire 21-year tenured, BYU physics professor Steven Jones because he proved explosives, thermite in particular, took down the WTC buildings.

Posted by: 5th of November at November 14, 2006 06:05 PM



a BYU Physics proffesor who know squat about structural engineering. but of course Jones forgets to mention that his book is an opinion peice not a engineering analysys by qualified technical authority.

as a engineer who's at least had SOME training in structural failures the official explination is not only plausible but technically sound...

but the book still shouldn't have been banned , but as a proffessional engineer I get offended by egghead proffessor winies who spout off about stuff they very obviously have no clue about.

Posted by: Sierra at November 14, 2006 06:53 PM



But where have we heard this before

"I am a professor, therefore what I say is true..", pick your favourite topic.....

IgnatIeff, Putting the "I" back in polItIcs.

Posted by: Stephen at November 16, 2006 07:49 AM