Digg Friends Haxxored! OMG!
Poor Digg. One minute the social news website that sprung forth in a beer tinged moment of indiscretion from Kevin Rose is being gamed. The comes word from Muhammad Saleem on the Pronet Advertising blog that the site is completely haxxored:
As a result of a mistake made by developers at Digg, not only did the site inadvertently create a flaw in their newly added friend referral feature, but they made its user-base vulnerable to a potential privacy disaster.
The referral feature works through a URL-based friend adding mechanism, which means that if you’re logged into your Digg profile and you visit a link of the form http://digg.com/invitefrom/username, ‘username’ is automatically added as a friend of yours.
Oh my! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats, living together… mass hysteria! Now even the most unpopular Diggers can be buried under all the friends of their choosing. Now if they just had something other than juvenile barbs to share with each other.
