Comments on: My #AmazonFAIL article at the Women’s Media Center http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/04/13/my-amazonfail-article-at-the-womens-media-center/ Media technologist and author in Brooklyn, NY. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:06:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: LarryV http://www.deannazandt.com/2009/04/13/my-amazonfail-article-at-the-womens-media-center/comment-page-1/#comment-5448 LarryV Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:15:08 +0000 http://www.deannazandt.com/?p=483#comment-5448 What amazed me is that the "glitch" was a large scale cross site scripting attack. I talk about XSS at work all the time. The execution here was pretty brilliant. And the results were that one marginalized but vocal community rose up against a large corporation on the notion of being biased against - chose ensues, playing right into the meta-troller's hand. It bothers me that given the scale of it, more people aren't actually talking about the nature of the "glitch" that caused it. What amazed me is that the “glitch” was a large scale cross site scripting attack. I talk about XSS at work all the time. The execution here was pretty brilliant. And the results were that one marginalized but vocal community rose up against a large corporation on the notion of being biased against – chose ensues, playing right into the meta-troller’s hand.

It bothers me that given the scale of it, more people aren’t actually talking about the nature of the “glitch” that caused it.

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