Anyone who isn't on the whitelist will probably not be affected by this. Most servers are not on the whitelist. Getting on it is about as easy as getting Dell or Netgear tech support to send you replacement gold bars in the mail.
The people this will really affect have servers that simply forward mail. We host commerce sites for people who don't know anything about the internet or what to do with it. They receive mail at their domains, and then we forward it to their AOL accounts, which they actually know how to check. We need to be whitelisted because if we aren't, we get blocked for forwarding any spam that our clients get at their domain accounts.
The users control what is marked spam, so it's not reasonable to expect them to understand when you tell them repeatedly not to mark messages as junk any goddamn more please.
Another note: a few months ago, AOL spontaneously started bouncing mails that had UNCLICKABLE URLs in them. So if you typed a URL in plain text, you got bounced. Real funny, I swear.
We stick a 20-ton craft near an asteroid many times its size. The 20-ton craft immediately "falls" to the surface of the asteroid, because hey, gravity. Now what? Propel away, right? Problem is, at close distances (necessary for the craft's gravity to matter), propelling away from the asteroid PUSHES it away as well. One possible solution is to have the 20-ton thing tethered to another craft that is far enough away, although that seems sort of elaborate. Maybe they suggest that in TFA. I wouldn't know. Articles about outer space are boorrrinngg.
I did this. They were more lenient with the javascript back then. You had to use escape characters, but it was no big deal. I wrote a self-propagating worm that changed a user's name to the source of my script. Then I inserted that code into my name. Everyone on myspace had their name changed to 'lupidvirus' after about 6 hours. I got a call from their lawyers the next day at work.
Mine propagated faster than this one because it didn't rely on profile views. Anytime you saw the name, whether it be in a comment, profile, or search, you would be infected. However, with the script executing 100 times per page view, myspace's servers quickly became overloaded and crashed (I didn't really expect it to work). I also essentially staged a DDoS attack against my web server which was hosting the script (it needed to be hosted in order to fit in the 'name' field).
Another note: myspace never removed the scripts that were saved before they outlawed javascript. To this day, I can read a user's inbox and sent messages when they view my profile. I also was going to write a DHTML roleplaying game that ran on myspace, but they locked that account because of the virus. It still plays music and lets you manipulate your inventory though =D
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Anyone who isn't on the whitelist will probably not be affected by this. Most servers are not on the whitelist. Getting on it is about as easy as getting Dell or Netgear tech support to send you replacement gold bars in the mail.
The people this will really affect have servers that simply forward mail. We host commerce sites for people who don't know anything about the internet or what to do with it. They receive mail at their domains, and then we forward it to their AOL accounts, which they actually know how to check. We need to be whitelisted because if we aren't, we get blocked for forwarding any spam that our clients get at their domain accounts.
The users control what is marked spam, so it's not reasonable to expect them to understand when you tell them repeatedly not to mark messages as junk any goddamn more please.
Another note: a few months ago, AOL spontaneously started bouncing mails that had UNCLICKABLE URLs in them. So if you typed a URL in plain text, you got bounced. Real funny, I swear.
Oh, and I'm trademarking "Greenlisting"
We stick a 20-ton craft near an asteroid many times its size. The 20-ton craft immediately "falls" to the surface of the asteroid, because hey, gravity. Now what? Propel away, right? Problem is, at close distances (necessary for the craft's gravity to matter), propelling away from the asteroid PUSHES it away as well. One possible solution is to have the 20-ton thing tethered to another craft that is far enough away, although that seems sort of elaborate. Maybe they suggest that in TFA. I wouldn't know. Articles about outer space are boorrrinngg.
I did this. They were more lenient with the javascript back then. You had to use escape characters, but it was no big deal. I wrote a self-propagating worm that changed a user's name to the source of my script. Then I inserted that code into my name. Everyone on myspace had their name changed to 'lupidvirus' after about 6 hours. I got a call from their lawyers the next day at work.
Mine propagated faster than this one because it didn't rely on profile views. Anytime you saw the name, whether it be in a comment, profile, or search, you would be infected. However, with the script executing 100 times per page view, myspace's servers quickly became overloaded and crashed (I didn't really expect it to work). I also essentially staged a DDoS attack against my web server which was hosting the script (it needed to be hosted in order to fit in the 'name' field).
Another note: myspace never removed the scripts that were saved before they outlawed javascript. To this day, I can read a user's inbox and sent messages when they view my profile. I also was going to write a DHTML roleplaying game that ran on myspace, but they locked that account because of the virus. It still plays music and lets you manipulate your inventory though =D
The legislative branch.