Thanks to a poorly configured Web polling application, this year's crowdsourced list was inundated with fake votes in order to display a mysterious message. Blogger Paul Lamere was given of the hack, and describes how Time never really had a chance:
4chan members carry out a precision hack of Time 100 poll
20.04.2009
The "" is the magazine's attempt to let readers build a definitive list of the 100 most influential people in government, science, technology and the arts. That is, until a group of 4chan members got involved.