That’s a cool trick

Today when reddit was down for maintenance people kept gathering on the #redditdowntime channel on freenode where under a couple of minutes intriguing things started to happen.

You can read the whole story here (and come back afterwards).
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TwitPic – modern Twitter backdoor

For those of you who don’t use Twitter I should specify that Twitter has long time moved away from “what are you doing” principle and today is more of a base framework (Twitter API) for many new (and innovative?) web applications.

Due to this direction that Twitter is adopting (involuntarily) dozens of web applications have sprung up; from url shortening services to web applications like: WeFollow, TwitterSheep, TwitterTag, TwitVid, YFrog, TwitPic and many more…

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Access Log Analysis

A while ago I wrote an article entitled Logging the HTTP requests! where I mentioned why you should implement a logging system (especially when you haven’t got access to the access log, like in shared hosting environment) and how to implement a simple (or not) logging system. Today we will go a step further.

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