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April to See Month of MySpace Bugs

Posted by Zonk on from the next-up-a-month-of-teddy-bear-bugs dept.

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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  1. In other news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bugtrack announced that on May first, they will start their 200th consecutive month of Microsoft bugs, give them a nice applause!

  2. Bug Filing Number 1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Status: OLD

    Severity: Major

    Reproducible: Always

    Description: MySpace is filled to the brim with whiny, middle-class, suburbanite, emo kids whining about how emo their life is and how they like to listen to emo music while cutting themselves.

    Solution: Delete Myspace.

  3. but... by netdur · · Score: 5, Funny

    myspace itself is a bug

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    1. Re:but... by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 4, Funny

      Some complain that the "Month of MySpace Bugs" should have moved to May, so as to avoid the unfortunate collision with the "Stealing Candy from Babies Day".

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  4. Question for slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can someone tell me why, after all this time, a website as popular as MySpace is still rampant with bugs? I mean.. wouldn't the majority of them be fixed by now, considering how much profit MySpace makes?

    And no I don't use MySpace...

  5. Re:I thought... by UbuntuDupe · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's been my feeling as well. Someone sent me a link to someone's myspace site a few months back, and when I got there, someone had just completely trashed the page. Everything was just strewn all over the place without any rhyme or reason. Whoever defaced the site also made some crappy music download and play whether you wanted to hear it or no and with no obvious way to silence it. If you clicked on a link to go anywhere, it would for some reason just take you to a login screen. WTF?

    I hope that got that bug patched up.

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  6. Re:But April only has 30 days by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, looks like someone forgot to check "Post Anonymously".

  7. Re:It's that time of the month again by joebagodonuts · · Score: 4, Funny

    I know you are, but what am I?

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