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Sep30
nComN's People Laugh About Their Security Errors
After my laughing, admittedly in a mean spirited tone, about their site security that I posted this rebuke to nComN:

I started to be mean, it is in my nature, but I am restraining myself. 

However, there are plenty of users that would have lots of fun with this.  Imagine, you could invite people to connect on LinkedIN, spam your blog url or even place a contextual ad in there... 

Remember, it's naughty to take advantage of the weak.  ;)

Really, I haven't thought much more about it until I received a comment today from someone there at nComN:

Thanks for helping us find that security glitch.

We are a fairly open system that requires users to login to contribute content. We do have content revision and history, so when people hacked our site we were easily able to go to the original version.

While it would have been more fun to know exactly to whom I was speaking, I appreciate their commenting to let us know how people responded.  They were very good sports.  Here are a few comments on their hacked pages:
  • "you can just add text anywhere on the page? what prevents anyone from hacking the site?" (this one was me)
  • "Is your web team being paid with Monopoly money?  wow!"
  • "NcomN's Popularity Contest. You could win a broken iPod Nano!"
    (With a picture of a broken iPod)
  • "We Need a Slogan! - NcomN is offering another chance for you to win a FREE Broken iPod!!!!"
  • "All you have to do is sign up for our site and help us with a slogan (and site security)."

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