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cmdr_zoomOkay, folks. If you see an entry in your friends' journal that says
"this is very interesting."
DO NOT CLICK ON IT.
Clicking the link will take you to a URL which will put the same thing in your journal. It might be harmless, but anything that looks as viral as this worries me. There's also a strong possibility that it might grab your LJ password. So, I suggest you don't do it (especially now that I've done you the favor of satisfying your curiousity as to what the link is). And if you already have, for safety's sake change your LJ password ASAP.
"this is very interesting."
DO NOT CLICK ON IT.
Clicking the link will take you to a URL which will put the same thing in your journal. It might be harmless, but anything that looks as viral as this worries me. There's also a strong possibility that it might grab your LJ password. So, I suggest you don't do it (especially now that I've done you the favor of satisfying your curiousity as to what the link is). And if you already have, for safety's sake change your LJ password ASAP.
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Date: 2004-06-12 01:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-06-12 07:53 pm (UTC)It is a trivial little trick. Basically they replicate a LJ update form and trigger it with JavaScript. So your browser calls LJ to post to your journal - if you're logged in you have a valid cookie, so LJ accepts the post.
Nothing at all ever goes back to the other site.
I could do the same thing, it is fairly simple JavsScript code.
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Date: 2004-06-13 12:20 am (UTC)(Hey, new comment-reply form.)