It's almost a pity that he didn't take up a collection to kill off the Bieber channel.... But then we'd have hordes of screaming teenie boppers and teenie bopper wannabees screaming for his head.
Good catch on the vuln, though.
Security bod Kamil Hismatullin has disclosed a simple method to delete any video from YouTube. The Russian software developer and hacker found videos can be instantly nuked by sending the identity number of a video in a post request along with any token. Google paid the bug hunter US$5000 for the find along with $1337 under …
My first experience of 'bringing the internet to its knees' was way back when 64k lines were a luxury, and an irate customer wanted to know why no emails were getting into his company.
A bit of poking around in the mail queues of the upstream server revealed a 50Mbyte email whose title was 'Video of My New Baby' ...which he requested be summarily deleted after learning whence it originated.
Cats would have been a vast improvement.
1337....leet
further up in the article...31337.(eleet../ elite) ..also a port used by cDc Back Orifice...a *ahem* remote administration tool widely used by those in the know around 1998/1999 or so iirc....origin dates back to cDc using the term to get around text filters on bbs' when discussing those topics that interested them
They're being cute about it.