You do have to hand it to Arrington to run an interstitial welcome.html ad on there today based on the volume of traffic coming in to check out the hacking story . . .
Michael is out in Davos, Switzerland right now — he isn't masterminding an opportunistic ad campaign.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/26/techcrunch-hacked/
Which hasn't been updated with details as promised. The lack of details here and the fact that you got hacked again makes it look either like you don't know how he got in, or that there were multiple vulnerabilities.
http://www.wickedfire.com/shooting-shit/82271-shoemoney-com-...
Any time I try to visit a link to TC now, the interstitial comes up and then sends me to the front page. I'm not going to dig through to figure out where the actual content lives. Although, I've already dealt with the ads, so maybe it doesn't really matter.
Defined -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial_webpage
I don't visit techcrunch often (its actually hard-coded banned in my hosts file), but I can bet it was planned couple of days in advance for this weeks apple announcement, or if it is the unlikely scenario that it happened the same day that they were hacked; it was merely a coincidence.
You just don't wake up one day and put up an interstitial ad in high traffic site.
They sold ads written on a WHITEBOARD shown on their streaming office cam for goodness sake.
Nearly every modern ad serving platform allows for interstitials, so this is within the realm of imagination.
But he didn't, so my crackpot theory is out the window.
http://www.beet.tv/2009/05/techcrunch-selling-ads-for-its-li...
Your theory is still a crackpot theory even if someone from TC didn't point it out. I doubt you have any IRL experience in selling online ad inventory.
Yes almost _all_ popular adservers allow interstitials, doesn't mean you see them all the time. Why? Because high paying inventory are only available in certain time of the year. Including, high-profile product launch and holiday shopping season.