this is great...
Cross-Site Scripting Worm Floods MySpace
http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/10/14/126233.shtml?tid=172&tid=95&tid=220
This guy exploited a bug in IE's parser (interpreting java\nscript
as javascript) to bypass MySpace's javascript filtering rules (along
with various other tricks:
http://namb.la/popular/tech.html ) and
within 24 hours had 1 million+ "friend requests" waiting, and had
been added to many users' lists of heroes.
Details:
http://namb.la/popular/ (screenshots at the bottom are
pretty funny)
It's probably a good thing the Web didn't exist when I was in high
school, or this is the kind of thing I would have been doing.
btw, I can't believe Fox paid $580 million for myspace.com!
It's amazing what a completely trivial piece of tech will sell
for once it has grown to enough users.
(wrote this a couple days ago but had to re-create fogo before
sending it)
--
Gerald Oskoboiny <
[email protected]>
http://impressive.net/people/gerald/