f-ing script kiddies. "sammy" obviously hadn't thought through exactly what 
would happen before he created a worm. I wonder if he even understood that he 
was, in effect, creating a worm.


>http://www.betanews.com/article/CrossSite_Scripting_Worm_Hits_MySpace/1129232391
>
>"One clever MySpace <http://www.myspace.com/> user looking to expand his
>buddy list recently figured out how to force others to become his friend,
>and ended up creating the first self-propagating cross-site scripting (XSS)
>worm. In less than 24 hours, "Samy" had amassed over 1 million friends on
>the popular online community."
>
>"To do this without a user's knowledge, the code utilized XMLHTTPRequest"
>
>Whee.
>
>-Kevin

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