MSN launches Dutch Digg clone, but forgets spam prevention
Recently (I honestly don't know when), MSN launched a Digg clone in the Netherlands, called MSN reporter. You can submit your story, and others can vote for it or against it. The top stories go to the MSN.nl homepage. Now the boys at MSN haven't really thought this through, as they store what stories you've voted on in... your cookie-jar! So, deleting your cookie allows you to vote again, and even better, rejecting your cookie alltogether, allows you to vote as much as you like...
To make things even worse, you can vote, or "kick" in their terminology, for a story by simply calling a URL...
Now of course you can script this, which I did:
<?php
$i = 1;
while ($i < 1000) {
file_get_contents("< kick-url >");
echo $i;
$i++;
}
?>I ran this script for a few seconds, and before I knew it, the story was on the MSN.nl homepage...
Now come on MSN, you can do way better than that!
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by Eduard Blacquière on 15 February, 2007 at 23:02
Mmmmm.... I would also expect that MSN would think this through a bit more smart. A shame they didn't.. You've got my vote for Digg :-)
by Ulco on 16 February, 2007 at 00:08
Look what you've done... Looks like you broke it, all I get now are some stupid characters but no more MSN lol :)
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by Rxbbx on 16 February, 2007 at 10:41
:) Dugg it..
by Joost de Valk on 16 February, 2007 at 10:42
;) thx guys :)
by Alain on 16 February, 2007 at 11:41
And the problem has been fixed: http://www.webwereld.nl/ref/rss/45086
It was fun while it lasted :)
by Eduard Blacquière on 16 February, 2007 at 12:28
You like to have the 'world' to know it, don't cha ;-)
http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/02/15/msn-dutch-digg-clone-forgets-spam-protection
by Joost de Valk on 16 February, 2007 at 13:11
Eduard: WebProNews syndicates my feed :)
by MrRinuxs on 16 February, 2007 at 13:24
Not fixed
can still fake votes
by Joost de Valk on 16 February, 2007 at 14:44
Hehe, I suspected as much, haven't tested it myself yet though :)
by Dennis Goedegebuure on 16 February, 2007 at 16:57
MSN launched the service last monday in the evening local time.
http://corner.typepad.com/english/2007/02/msn_comes_with_.html
Great hack Joost, loved it :)
by Eduard Blacquière on 16 February, 2007 at 17:48
I didn't notice it before. Not the worst place to get your feed syndicated :-)
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by Bas on 9 April, 2007 at 20:00
Probleem is nog altijd niet opgelost, cookies blokkeren en stemmen maar. Met het script bedien ik nu de volledige voorpagina!
by Joost de Valk on 9 April, 2007 at 20:02
Zooo jammer :)
by Eduard Blacquière on 22 June, 2007 at 11:30
I think they weren't able to fix to problem and decided to take the site down. MSN Reporter now redirects to http://nl.msn.com/ ...
by Joost de Valk on 22 June, 2007 at 14:06
Hehehe, funny :)
by Buy your site on 2 July, 2007 at 20:26
Goed gedaan man! En met een scriptje van 6 regels :-))
by dree on 3 August, 2007 at 23:20
hoe run je dit script joost?
by Joost de Valk on 4 August, 2007 at 01:54
dree: on the command line, or by opening it in your browser window.
by dree on 6 August, 2007 at 10:10
Joost
Dank je voor de uitleg maar ik ben nog niet zo heel handig hiermee
Ik heb een je script in een browser geplakt , ge-upload naar mijn serveren vandaar uit aangeroepen
Vervolgens duurt het een hele tijd voor dat er een pagina verschijnt met allemaal cijfers
is dit ok?
");
echo $i;
$i++;
}
?>
by dree on 28 August, 2007 at 12:44
Joost
ik heb dit script op vele manieren gerunt maar het spijt me het werkt niet meer
Heel Jammer ook dat er niet meer gereageerd word
by Joost de Valk on 28 August, 2007 at 12:45
"Vervolgens duurt het een hele tijd voor dat er een pagina verschijnt met allemaal cijfers" dat klinkt alsof het werkte.
by Johan on 4 October, 2007 at 08:31
Hey,
Ik snap nog niet helemaal waar je deze code naartoemoet kopieren. Iemand die mij erover meer kan vertellen?
gr.
n00b (A)
by Richard on 19 November, 2007 at 17:07
Johan,
naar een php-bestand. Dit moet je uploaden naar je webserver als die php ondersteunt. Maar het maakt niet uit, hij werkt toch niet meer (zie andere reacties)..