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McCain story "teh Immaculate Hack" Niiiice.

Davidson said he's got nothing against McCain as a candidate. He pulled off the prank to slap the campaign's wrist over a breach of Internet etiquette.

A Web-page designer, Davidson didn't like the looks of the basic MySpace layout. So he wrote some computer code to create a "more tasteful" format and offered it free to all on his mikeindustries.com blog.

He asked that users credit him for the design. And he also provided some sample graphics to illustrate the kinds of images that users of the code could incorporate into their MySpace pages, while requesting that users supply their own images

Davidson, a graduate of Bellevue High School and the University of Washington, estimates that 100,000 MySpacers have adopted his code -- including McCain. No problem there.

But McCain did not credit him.

Worse, instead of coming up with its own format for a list of links and contacts or even using Davidson's sample, the campaign simply linked to the list on Davidson's own MySpace page.