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Windley points to some information about the relative levels of security on the campaign sites of Bush and Kerry - pointing out that there's an interesting tension between security and speed on something as temporally bound as a campaign website (which may map very well to sales/marketing campaigns in the business world). The main finding is that Bush's site seems to have a lot more potential security holes in it - color me not surprised after reading this:

And for those who evaluate a candidate's choice of operating systems when choosing their president, Smith's check showed that the Kerry site is housed on an Apache Web server running on a Red Hat Linux box. The Bush website is hosted on a Microsoft IIS 5.0 server and uses Microsoft's ASP.net.

IIS is a sure way to security holes....