Web security through threats of violence
The Daily WTF just ran a story about a company that sells listings in one of those highly questionable “business directories”, and has a Web site with hilariously poor security.
(Hint: If you want to “password protect” a Web page, don’t put the hard-coded username and password in the source code of the login page. Oh, and don’t put the URL of the otherwise wide-open “protected” page in plaintext in the source either, or people - by which I mean, “bright eight-year-olds, or unusually well-trained monkeys” - may just copy and paste that URL to their browser’s address bar.)
So far, so unremarkable.
But you need go no further than the Featured Comments below the story to find the start of a good old-fashioned Internet flameout by the owners of the site.
How dare you “hack” our site, this directory is our livelihood and we forbid you to say you think it’s overpriced, we know where you live you druggie bitches, et cetera.
If you like this sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you will like.
