April to See Month of MySpace Bugs

An anonymous reader passed us a link to PC World's coverage of the upcoming Month of MySpace bugs. Organized by a pair of wiseacre hackers tired of the 'Month of X Bugs', they are set up to 'highlight the monoculture-style danger of extremely popular websites.' Though it's supposed to be funny, outside security analysts have apparently been consulted on the project. "Though the project, which launches on April 1, has all the appearance of a practical joke one well-known hacker said he'd been contacted by the Month of MySpace team with legitimate security questions. 'Those guys and I have been keeping in touch,' said Robert Hansen, chief executive of Sectheory.com. 'It's funny but it's not a joke.'"

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Re:Why is it "funny" to exploit security bugs?

[QuantumG]

Or, ya know, you could write code without security issues already. Most "wall of shame" sites are exactly that. The message is: these guys are idiots, switch to someone else as quickly as possible.