lou put his typing and hacker skills to work recently with some covert disruption on the new headline grabbing democractic presidential hopeful out of illinois.
this report was found on techcrunch.
Very Ugly Bug at BarackObama.com
Michael Arrington
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The “find a group” section of the new Barack Obama social network contains a hard coded racial and sexual orientation slur. When searching groups, a couple of search options appear along with the hard coded text “Example: Gay Nigger Association of America -#@ for Obama, 16892.” If you have an account and are signed in to the social network, this appears on: my.barackobama.com/page/group
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This was either done maliciously by one of the developers of the site, or more likely, there is a security hole in the software that has been exploited. Either way, not a good start for the Barack Obama social network. Update: see below – this is actually a “feature” and simply uses the most recently created group as an example in search.
Thanks to Scott Hurff at GroupVine for pointing this out.
Update: A commenter notes that this was fixed. The text now says “Example: Pasadena and Altadena for Obama, 91103.”
Further Update: This appears to be a “feature” that uses the most recently created group as the example text on the group search page. I have had my hand slapped by a representative of the Obama campaign, who really should have just said “thanks for notifying us of this, it’s been fixed.”
Further Update: The site has been changed so that groups must be approved by the campaign staff prior to going “live” on the groups search.
remember that time pants cooked the food you like, hosted the tailgate, let you stay over night, visited you too often at school, learned how to text, took you to practice, made you feel uncomfortable when asking you about a gf or bf, cried when you left home, loved you more than should be possible. you probably do. cause it happens everyday.
