The first thing that came to mind was wow not again. But then I thought hmmm seems odd a Unix security expert would let some script kiddies deface his blog one more time. So I refreshed a few times and tried */2007…

hah you would be suprised how low this blog is on my list of updating (security wise) I would not be surprised myself to see it get hacked again.

Yeah, I understand. I have a few forums that are the same way. I try to make it a habit to update once I receive the update reminder via email, but then again if you have backups and all it’s not hard to recover from a deface.

Cheers for the April fools joke!

The first thing that entered into my mind was LINKSPAM That post got you a few links on technorati though. even though I read your blog daily, I heard about it there first!

It looks like Matt Cutts was “hacked” too:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/

And Shchoeoe, I mean ShoeMoney was mentioned too:

http://int2e.com/blog/matt-cuttss-blog-has-been-hacked/

Yeah yeah. Sweet.

Looks like I got snowed.
I seriously thought he’d been hacked. Funny.

I thought I’d seen that symbol somewhere, but with the logo in the middle it reeked script kiddie with Photoshop.

Happy April fools SHOE you LABRAT ! Ya got me

You got me bad. I searched Google to see what happened to Shoemoney. Apparently, nothing
Good one.

i just woked and see shoemoney site closed … i see the foundation page and thought how come hacker be so polite to give a foundation link rather then his own … then i thought to use some old post link to check wether database still exists or not …. and i came to know it is april fool ……

and thanks for the code share ….

Got a lot of people. WF ppl seemed to figure it out quick.

Shoe mentions others in the blog and Matt was one

That’s a nice viral marketing site your fake page links to.

When the letter from Hanso comes up, put your mouse over the right hand side of paragraph that starts “Our methods must change…” That makes a buzzing noise start and then a few seconds into it you can hear someone talking about a virus. I haven’t listened to indepth yet and I’m just starting to look at the code.

I knew something was going on =)

[...] Shoemoney revealed that it’s just an April Fools Day prank, just like what he did with his blog. At about 1:30pm or so I made the frontpage of shoemoney.com look like this. Course if you hit refresh you never saw the April fools day page. [...]

For a minute I thought you lost it shoe. Im not a lost fan, so the hanso foundation thing had me totally confused thinking you gave up your money making ways for greater enlightenment.

Well, you got me. I was totally convinced you’d been hacked. I’m quite new to your blog, so didn’t know you’d been hacked before. Congrats - I’m a fool!

[...] Shoemoney hat seine Seite sogar komplett offline genommen. Zumindest für den ersten Visit am 01.04. [...]

I always go straight to DigitalPoint to find out whats up, whether it be with adsense or shoemoney, theres always someone thats more obsessed than you.

I knew something wasn’t right. I had no problems entering your site through Google, which I found very odd.

Apart from the April’s fool this code is quite nice if you really need to send a message to readers.

[...] announced today will be scrutinized to make sure it’s legitimate. There have already been a couple blogs that threw up the requisite “I’ve been hacked” pages, and Google has [...]

Whoooooo man you really got me. My heart skipped a beat. I was like what-da-ya-mean Shut down. I almost got nervous then i typed the url to the serps tool and saw that there. Then tried back and found out you were just being a smart ass. YEH… good one shoe

cool little april fools script.

Thanks, I just saw that after I posted the comment.

You didn’t list Google’s April Fools’ page! Free broadband from the WC

The ShoeMoney Station page was sweet.. it should be made into a T Shirt..

Matt’s prank was really awesome as well. TechCrunch was a little too serious, which was funny in a way.

Hoho.. It was a nice one though. I guess some people did get tricked!

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On a somewhat related note, how awesome was last week’s episode of Lost? I totally thought they were going to wake up before the dirt went on. That was a good April Fools joke.

you ba&^%%D!!!!!!!!!! I had just finished blogging about the Matt Cutts and Shoemoney blog attack when I discovered your site was back. But I did say that it *might* be an april fools joke, so I don’t have too much egg on my face!

Good trick man. Me on the other hand, I was hired by Google to be their official bouncy ball and Zorb tester.

[...] ShoeMoney closed down his own site. [...]

Looks more like a lack of inspiration to do a real April Fools joke. So, next year we can expect a joke on March 30th or what? Neither you or your servers are in a time zone that had already reached April 1st.

It was the first thing I saw this morning - I thought it was pretty funny. I posted it on my blog toot sweet.

I really thought the others had gotten to you! Good joke, I did the ol’ print screen image as a background and then hid the desktop icons. My buddy couldn’t figure it out for about 45 mins haha!

Nice Little April Fools day trick man.

I didn’t see it until this post. Very funny though.

Should you really have said that!?

Many people got tricked. Thought you got into trouble.

I actually got really scared and disappointed when I saw then. Then I looked at my calender, and ease set over me.

You definetly had me thinging something wierd was up last night

You had me for a sec

…

APRIL FOOLS!

Doubt it, lol

I think google’s Fool tops them all http://www.google.com/tisp/ (free in home wireless from your toilet *L* )

[...] other related news: ShoeMoney was aquired by the Hanso Foundation, Matt Cutts got hacked by the Dark SEO Team and TechCrunch Has [...]

That’s awesome, I think anyone who knows your love for Lost would recognize the reference but you never know… maybe it was a bad guy who loves Lost and hates you. you never know!

I had to do a double take on the whole Cutts thing.

You are SO BAD!!!! I missed out because I read through the feed - my jaw would have hit China!

[...] Shoemoney blog. [...]

nice april fools shoemoney!

they also had the paper archive in gmail. Google usualy has several pranks for April Fools. Nice to see even though they’ve grown up, they still have a sense of humor.

Has anyone put up an April’s Fool archive yet? It would be neat to see a list of popular sites running april’s fool jokes, and see how they evolve…

The Hanso Foundation page was hilarious. I knew that you liked Lost. What I didn’t know was that you liked it THAT much. Welcome to the club :).

I recognized the Lost theme instantly and I began laughing. 1st of April is always a crazy day.

I also missed out I was weekending in hell

Matt’s blog is back to normal, but thinking about it now, wouldn’t April Fool’s be the perfect time for pranksters to hack a site.
With some sites pretending to be hacked, a lot of people would think it was just another April fool and not inform some webmasters.

Just a thought.

Hmmm… I totally missed it.

i straight knew that it was an april fools prank. Who would throw away such a popular blog?

Don’t you dare shut this blog down. I’ll stop bringing you chocolate and cookies.

Don’t you dare shut this blog down or there won’t be any more chocolate or cookies. You know who this is!

Happy April Fools Day! [Collection]…

Happy April 1st!! A lot of funny things are already floating around the internet, so I’m going to try to collect as many as I can right here. As updates come in, I’ll keep adding to the list of April Fool’s Day pranks:

1) Google Gma…

Still Cool …!!

Actually, just click on the last word in the third paragraph, and voilla. Theres the complete movie.

Enjoy

Actually Shoe, I was (god forbid) on a PC at the time with a tight version of IE7. I ws sure I had reloaded that damn page and it turns out I did. It was the first thing I did.

For some reason, the cookie was being blocked by IE. Might be worth a thought next time you explore the cookie tin

It was funny

That is pretty funny, I bet a lotta people fell for that!

[...] Shoemoney has also pretended to be hacked in the past although some people thought he jumped the gun by doing it a day early. [...]

[...] Shoemoney has also pretended to be hacked in the past although some people thought he jumped the gun by doing it a day early. [...]