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Well played, anonymous hacker. I even respect your lack of political posturing. For when this gets fixed, right now techcrunch.com is an empty html page that c

by rms 17y ago

Well played, anonymous hacker. I even respect your lack of political posturing. For when this gets fixed, right now techcrunch.com is an empty html page that contains <a href="http://nottherealurl.com/ http://nottherealurl.com/ title="rapidshare downloads">rapidshare downloads</a> Edit: now it is a blank html page that contains only "hi". Someone from HN rehacked it? Or it's about to be fixed.

NZ_Matt 17y ago
It was linking to dupedb .com when I looked a minute ago. Now all I see is text saying hi
- decadentcactus 17y ago
  Before that, it (automatically redirected?) was some affiliate link. I came page to the tab to see 'this offer is not available in your country'.
- timdorr 17y ago
  Looks like it's switching around depending on what backend their load balancer throws you to. It's jumping around for me, which suggests they don't have any session affinity. Interesting, but I guess it's not required for their kind of app.
  - mahmud 17y ago
    site, for their kind of site.
    - olefoo 17y ago
      These days, that's a distinction without a difference. All websites that couldn't usefully be delivered as PDFs are applications by definition.
      - Skeuomorph 17y ago
        Techcrunch could be delivered as a PDF. I get it on my Kindle. Just as most new web sites are not startup companies, most existing web sites are not apps. The distinction and difference is that a software application helps a user perform manipulation or transformation of data as useful work. Most websites, despite simple interactivity (e.g. search), are still published as "content" for consumption within a content access application, not for manipulating work|play|creative output.
        jrp 17y ago
        And the comments on the posts are built into a PDF?
        mahmud 17y ago
        Who reads TechCrunch comments? they're worse than youtube, at least youtubers are not self-promoting.
    - Sukotto 17y ago
      The line between those two words blurs more every day
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krav 17y ago
A hack for the sake of hacking - gotta respect.
jvdh 17y ago
Either they've been hacked again, or they're really onto it now. The page is now blank with the text: "We'll be back soon."
- ashishbharthi 17y ago
  I saw "We'll be back soon." page once when I submitted comment on one of he article.

by rms 17y ago

NZ_Matt 17y ago

It was linking to dupedb .com when I looked a minute ago. Now all I see is text saying hi

decadentcactus 17y ago
Before that, it (automatically redirected?) was some affiliate link. I came page to the tab to see 'this offer is not available in your country'.
timdorr 17y ago
Looks like it's switching around depending on what backend their load balancer throws you to. It's jumping around for me, which suggests they don't have any session affinity. Interesting, but I guess it's not required for their kind of app.
- mahmud 17y ago
  site, for their kind of site.
  - olefoo 17y ago
    These days, that's a distinction without a difference. All websites that couldn't usefully be delivered as PDFs are applications by definition.
    - Skeuomorph 17y ago
      Techcrunch could be delivered as a PDF. I get it on my Kindle. Just as most new web sites are not startup companies, most existing web sites are not apps. The distinction and difference is that a software application helps a user perform manipulation or transformation of data as useful work. Most websites, despite simple interactivity (e.g. search), are still published as "content" for consumption within a content access application, not for manipulating work|play|creative output.
      - jrp 17y ago
        And the comments on the posts are built into a PDF?
        mahmud 17y ago
        Who reads TechCrunch comments? they're worse than youtube, at least youtubers are not self-promoting.
  - Sukotto 17y ago
    The line between those two words blurs more every day

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krav 17y ago

A hack for the sake of hacking - gotta respect.

jvdh 17y ago

Either they've been hacked again, or they're really onto it now. The page is now blank with the text: "We'll be back soon."

ashishbharthi 17y ago
I saw "We'll be back soon." page once when I submitted comment on one of he article.