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JavaScript worm

2005-10-17 13:45:14.740919+00 by Dan Lyke 1 comments

Just in case you haven't seen it, here's a story of a guy who wrote a JavaScript worm that propagated on MySpace, but, more interestingly, here's the explanation behind the worm, which has a few things I didn't think about when trying to harden user input on this site, and which I should write some code to clean out.

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#Comment Re: made: 2005-10-17 18:42:48.849779+00 by: meuon

Nice diatribe on what he did and how it worked. Educational.