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Weiner’s ‘hack attack’ alibi takes heckuva hit

Anthony Weiner’s “I was hacked” defense just doesn’t compute.

Techies say new evidence makes it harder to believe that someone managed to send a lewd tweet in the congressman’s name, it was reported yesterday.

The infamous crotch shot sent to a Seattle co-ed was transmitted through an application known as TweetDeck, according to the iPad publication The Daily.

The TweetDeck stamp “does make it more plausible that it did come from him,” software company security adviser Chet Wisniewski told the digital newspaper.

Tweets can be sent several ways. Weiner has been known to post tweets from the Web directly and through his BlackBerry.

But on May 27, Weiner used TweetDeck exclusively, according to TweetCongress.org, a Web site that monitors congressional tweets, The Daily said.

So instead of simply having to hack into Twitter, a hacker would have had to access his TweetDeck application, a less likely scenario.

A very savvy hacker could have been following Weiner that day, noticed the TweetDeck pattern and targeted that.

But this additional hurdle lessens the odds that he was hacked, experts said.

“The complexity goes up,” said TweetCongress founder Chris McCroskey

TweetDeck’s community manager would not comment.

Weiner first said that his Facebook account was hacked and made no mention of his Twitter page.

But later his spokesman said the cyberassault had compromised all of his social-networking platforms.

McCroskey said the mystery will not ultimately be solved by computer geeks.

“Here’s the thing that solves it all — for him to call for a criminal investigation,” he told The Daily.

“All they have to do is look at his TweetDeck and see if it came from there, see what [Internet address] it had. The local police department or Capitol Police could probably figure this out in 15 minutes.”

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