Digg Security Hole Promotes Story with 2 Votes
If you were lucky you managed to see a Digg security hole get exposed on September 12th
Below is a screen shot of the digg home page with 2 votes. The screen shot shows 5 but that because it was taken after a refresh
Now my first thought was it was one of the digg moderators pushing a story to the home page, however upon closer examination this wasn’t the case. Clicking through to the story revealed many other Digg users who were equally surprised at the two vote popular status. They rightly called it what it was spam, and proceeded to bury the story (which in this case was 100% justifiable).
What’s the lesson here, if you have an exploit, loop hole, or other trick that works, don’t squander it on a crappy story or use it in an obvious way that will get you caught and expose your methods. Use this […]
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