“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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