moot, an online persona of the person who started the notorious website 4chan, has been voted Time’s Most Influential Person in an online poll conducted by the website. However, his win is a result of a masterful hack that is detailed further on Music Machinery. Despite several attempts to stop the hackers, they still endured and voted moot the winner, as well as spelling “marblecake lost the game” with the first letters of the rest of the winners.

Not only did they dupe reCAPTCHA they also used brute force and some brilliant incentives for people to be recruited to help them. It’s all detailed in the blog post.