taking sides: Livejournal v ILXor

I don't believe I know a single goth or emo on LJ. If I do, that's not the primary way they define themselves online.

This is not meant to be argumentative, btw, simply to point out possible observer bias - one tends to find what one is looking for.

Basically, there's a cookie security flaw in Firefox that means domains that have domain.com/user/blah subdirectories were somehow vulnerable (I dont know the tech details). LJ had suffered from some hacking that meant some user's accounts were logged into maliciously to cause shenanigans.

To prevent this and further problems they've swapped from subdirectories to subdomains. However due to the fact DNS standards don't allow leading underscores they've had to not let any users with a leading undercorre (eg __freddy) to use a subdomain. They instead get some longwinded workaround, and so were offered free rename tokens. Paid up users got offered useless phone posts (which no one but americans can even use) as a gesture of good faith compromise.

The shit's now hit the fan and people are whinging all over the place.

Hours of amusement reading those news comments.

anyway, its just some cross site scripting BULLSHIT

God knows why anyone would want to haxxor a fat emogoth teen's LJ in the first place :/

goths are kind of fat
― terry lennox. (gareth)

^^^settin' ilx trends

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Well, I am old.