I’ll bet you didn’t know that my mom is an 1337 h4×0r. I was talking to her this weekend, when she had a question. She said she went to a web site, and when she entered the URL from the magazine that was reading, the blue bar on safari would only get to the w.

This actually wasn’t that bad of a description. When I typed the URL she gave me, the browser just spun and didn’t download anything. Stranger still, it didn’t time out after 60 seconds. If the server is doing what I think it’s doing, this could be used to DOS the web site. As it turns out, I can replicate the behavior on any of their pages, simply by adding characters to the end of the URL. I’ve sent them a note, but if I know large corporations should land in an inbox somewhere about 3,000 miles away from the person that can actually do something about it.

Here’s hoping it’s not serious.

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