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My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make apps and websites, and this is my tech blog — you’ll find news commentary here, from a very opinionated Mac-head.

Il y a une version française ici, but most of this blog’s contents are extracted from my Twitter feed, and hence only available in one language (which varies randomly).

13 apr. 2009

“Why It Makes Sense That a Hacker’s Behind Amazon’s Big Gay Outrage”

What [homophobic hacker] Weev says he figured out was a way to trick Internet users into automatically flagging products [as inappropriate] without their knowledge, with the help of friends who run high-profile websites. He also says he hired "third-worlders" to register fake Amazon accounts and flag books.

No developer is safe from letting a CSRF vulnerability creep in. (Didn’t write — or read — about the #amazonfail before because the idea of it didn’t make any sense.)

 

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