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Keen ([info]o_o) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2004-06-13 00:05:00


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Current mood:Shiny

I can't believe this hasn't made it here yet, but...
So, two days ago [info]nightway created a meme that, using Javascript and if you're logged in, posts a chain of "sausage links" with the users who clicked on the meme before you. The meme was first in Russian, with no translation, yet people still clicked on it.

Then the "this is very interesting" meme started going around, and yes, people still clicked on it, and if they were logged in LJ, a post appeared in their LJs. Then people started panicking about both memes being virus and stealing LJ passwords. It's a good thing the Cold War is over! ;)

But that's not all! Another person decides to play with the script a bit and comes up with the Tic Tac Toe game!. [info]nightway doesn't like it, but [info]cdk's reaction is less than mature.

Meanwhile in [info]lj_dev, there's a debate on the morality of this meme. And, of course, the occasional death wish.

And yes, if you've clicked on any of the memes, it wouldn't hurt to change your password and scan your computer just in case. :)

ETA: Newsflash: The memes don't do anything to your passwords!



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[info]lurker32
2004-06-12 11:38 pm UTC (link)
Meanwhile, [info]adriang gets into it with Boy-with-stupid-1337-username-which-I-cannot-be-arsed-to-look-up, who created the "this is interesting" meme (which isn't). Complete with whiney evasions, equations to rape, and sockpuppets yes-men!

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[info]o_o
2004-06-12 11:42 pm UTC (link)
I must admit this reference to herpes is hilarious.

This link is completely work-safe and won't post anything in your JF, LJ, GJ, or whatever the fuck you use. :D

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(no subject) - [info]crickets, 2004-06-13 06:32 am UTC

[info]ashenmote
2004-06-12 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Well, there was a wank concerning the two memes and some precocious advice about it on F_W for a short while, earlier. But it was deleted for some reason.

Am just happy that LJ was behaving so bad all day and I had no opportunity to click on memes whatsoever.

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[info]o_o
2004-06-12 11:43 pm UTC (link)
It was? Aw, I posted it because I didn't see anything.

(And hello again! ^_^)

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(no subject) - [info]ashenmote, 2004-06-12 11:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]o_o, 2004-06-13 12:01 am UTC

[info]smit
2004-06-12 11:50 pm UTC (link)
Nothing to add, just drive-by Pansy icon love.

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[info]delcj
2004-06-13 12:14 am UTC (link)

same here.

*adds to the Pansy love*

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[info]wankprophet
2004-06-13 12:07 am UTC (link)
Apparently someone has been suspended over this...they're referencing one kw34hd1 here.

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[info]o_o
2004-06-13 12:18 am UTC (link)
I think that's the creator of the "this is very interesting" meme.

Also, in that entry someone comments with this icon and manages to freak me out:

His ev0l grin is pastede on yay!

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(no subject) - [info]littlest_lurker, 2004-06-13 12:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]o_o, 2004-06-13 12:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]terminal_frost, 2004-06-13 06:26 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]o_o, 2004-06-13 09:36 am UTC

[info]beccastareyes
2004-06-13 12:18 am UTC (link)
I file this under 'Reasons I should not be allowed near LJ before I am fully awake.' I don't read everything I should.

Oh well, I have a Mac -- no one writes virii/spyware/adware/trojan horses for Macs -- and I needed to change my LJ password anyway. It was one I use for everything not important, now it is a unique one.

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[info]miome
2004-06-13 01:14 am UTC (link)
You have installed the security patch referenced here, haven't you?"

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(no subject) - [info]onetrickpony, 2004-06-13 01:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]msilverstar, 2004-06-13 01:37 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]onetrickpony, 2004-06-13 10:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]msilverstar, 2004-06-13 05:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-06-13 01:41 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]auguris, 2004-06-13 01:46 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]silvernutmeg, 2004-06-13 03:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]plazmah, 2004-06-13 04:02 am UTC

[info]mirabellawotr
2004-06-13 12:19 am UTC (link)
Being the bitter, snarky person that I am, I found it amusing that so many people would rather go into screaming, panicked hysterics over the meme than listen to the people who were patiently explaining, with examples from the code, why it was unlikely in the extreme to do any damage.

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[info]fiatincantatum
2004-06-13 12:23 am UTC (link)
Not to mention the ones bellowing for explanations as to why LiveJournal didn't protect them from their actions...

*passes the popcorn*

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(no subject) - [info]o_o, 2004-06-13 12:32 am UTC

[info]o_o
2004-06-13 12:26 am UTC (link)
Yeah, or worrying about whether they will never access their journals again or cracking up those conspiracy theories.

But I changed my password and checked my computer just in case, because I know absolutely nothing of computers. :P

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(no subject) - [info]darkwitch666, 2004-06-13 02:00 am UTC

[info]geekmagirl
2004-06-13 12:33 am UTC (link)
I posted in my LJ, asking why do people keep clicking on things they can't even understand, and got the brilliant, "But it's a MEME! I HAD to click on it, 'cause it's a MEME! DUHHHH!" response.


...I love my flist.

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[info]darkwitch666
2004-06-13 02:01 am UTC (link)
Really, though, I don't understand how memegen works, at least down deep at the programming level, and I click on those!

Was a really good wakeup call on what-the-consequences-could-have-been, though. ;)

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(no subject) - [info]geekmagirl, 2004-06-13 02:06 am UTC

[info]khym_chanur
2004-06-13 12:43 am UTC (link)
Don't worry about passwords. All this palor-trick does is tell your web browser to submit a post to your journal. Since your browser is logged in to LJ, the post goes through. The person who set up the trick doesn't get any information about you, and it certainly can't install viruses.

However, this is still something of a security problem. Any random asshat could set up a web page that, when viewed, would make your browser post "I love Hitler and the KKK" or similar to your journal. It could also change all of your settings (except for your password), even who you show your contact info to.

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[info]katsue
2004-06-13 02:57 pm UTC (link)
Agreed about the security problem. While the sausage/interesting memes were just a bloody nuisance, leaving a lot of people worrying if their password had been stolen (self included - I'm no expert on Javascript), the potential for abuse using this kind of script worries me.

I'm no expert in these matters, but I assume this kind of script could be used to auto-update people's LJs with malicious code or child porn, for example.

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[info]onetrickpony
2004-06-13 12:45 am UTC (link)
OKay, here's my 'I r genieyus' story of the day.

I click the link the first time, get thething in my journal and am irritated. I change password, delete the image being linked nd edit the post with a whole 'blah blah blah, this is really rather ungood and if you click on it you're a fool. Fools.' thing. Then I come onto jf and I'm all "ooh, links about the 'this is interesting' thing! That should be interesting!"

I click on the link to [info]theferret's entry. Right at the top of the entry I see, 'this is interesting'. My mind completely fails to take into account the fact that I'm coming to a discussion of the link thing, the fact that I'm here from a f_w entry about the 'this is interesting' thing, the fact that my friends list won't shut up about it and the fact that I HAVE ALREADY ONCE FALLEN FOR THE FUCKING MEME. And so, rather predictably, I clicked on it again.


Do I get the stupid prize now?

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[info]lurker32
2004-06-13 01:00 am UTC (link)
*giggles* Oh man. You win.

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Irony? Nay... - [info]rachelmap, 2004-06-13 06:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]terminal_frost, 2004-06-13 06:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]onetrickpony, 2004-06-13 10:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-06-13 08:27 pm UTC

[info]darkwitch666
2004-06-13 02:04 am UTC (link)
OMGWTF!! hE puLLeD 1 OvR n me!! Im callnig my intraweb loyyer!!!111!1!

Hee!

Yeah, he got me. Ditto the freaking sausage one. Good lesson in being careful what to click on. A lesson that I should already know, given the virus shit that's slipped through my firewall, pre-upgrade anyway.

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[info]flax
2004-06-13 02:56 am UTC (link)
My god, wank that actually got into my friends list and isn't on metaquoutes! My god. (Though I can't link to more than one because the rest are so totally friends only.

In any case. It's, um, not actually a interesting meme. I get the feeling people are just clicking on it for the word Sausage. It's such a funny word.

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(no subject) - [info]beccastareyes, 2004-06-13 04:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]marginalsanity, 2004-06-13 07:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]neidhart, 2004-06-14 03:28 pm UTC

[info]ladybirdsleeps
2004-06-13 07:32 am UTC (link)
OKAY, PEOPLE CAN STOP PANICKING NOW.

I feel like the only person who kept the meme up, because I thought it was cute - and not as dangerous as people suspected. There's no way for the meme to steal your data. You haven't downloaded a virus, your journal has not been hacked. Your LiveJournal cookie is not compromised.

The worst a similar meme can do is add a journal to your friends list so whoever logs into that journal can see your protected entries. (This has happened. Devs know about it.)

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(no subject) - [info]mirabellawotr, 2004-06-13 12:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]o_o, 2004-06-13 12:23 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]o_o, 2004-06-13 12:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]lurker32, 2004-06-13 01:28 pm UTC
Re: - [info]mirabellawotr, 2004-06-13 02:27 pm UTC

[info]cjk
2004-06-13 08:32 am UTC (link)
*sighs deeply*

So I'm Russian, right? I saw the meme, read the text, especially the bit that said "it will automatically update your journal with this meme" and thought, the hell it will, I want to have a *tad* more control over my updates than this.

So I didn't fill in/click/whatever.

And then there's the shit from all those people, who did the meme without even understanding what the fuck it said. ...huh? It could have been anything.

(Actually, when I read the "let's play sausage, whose is bigger?" I automagically assumed this referred to male attributes, not a bit of code. But that's neither here no there.)

How can you click on any link/use an applet on the intrahweb when you don't exactly know what it does? How old are they, and how long have they been using the net?

...I'm expecting common sense from people again, aren't I? This just reminds me of my professors at work. When I ask them *why* they opened the bloody attachment when they've been warned time and again about viruses, they say, "well, it could have been important!"

...

I'm wanking, aren't I? *passes out babywipes*

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(no subject) - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2004-06-13 09:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cjk, 2004-06-13 01:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ladybirdsleeps, 2004-06-13 01:14 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cjk, 2004-06-13 09:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mirabellawotr, 2004-06-13 12:25 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cjk, 2004-06-13 12:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - ataniell93, 2004-06-13 08:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cjk, 2004-06-13 09:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-06-13 08:29 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cjk, 2004-06-13 08:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]smo, 2004-06-14 04:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]darkvalkyrie, 2004-06-14 09:48 pm UTC

[info]necronomist
2004-06-13 07:32 pm UTC (link)
I did not click on this is interesting, the Russian meme or the tic tac toe game.

At least I feel better that I am not as big a sheep as I thought.

(But still, need to change password)

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[info]darkvalkyrie
2004-06-14 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Moral of the story: Don't touch that! You don't know where it's been! ;)

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