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Yesterday on the last full day of WOS3<\/a>, I was sitting in the cafeteria getting a little help from Marcell<\/a>, to get a connection between my laptop and my bluetooth phone. During a routine google search marcell’s machine uddenly returned this<\/a> instead of the normal google front-end. Turns out, that a flock of, in my humble opinion, frankly immature and annoying, hackers<\/a> were staging a “24 hour dotcom” event. <\/p>\n

In just 24 hours they coded and deployed the dozomo meta-search engine, including a front-end, a mozilla\/firefox search plugin and a safari keywords file. So far so good. A good effort, a neat conference event, and a decent hack (although the search front-end is pretty buggy and flawed.
\nThat they extensively (some would say exhaustively) documented the whole thing on-line, and went ahead and offered a pseudo-IPO on ebay was actually quite a clever hack.<\/p>\n

UNFORTUNATELY, in a time-honored tradition of young geeks and adolescents, they then preceeded to scream for attention in a rude and obnoxious way, Using the in-conference proxy server they started redirecting http requests to google, msn and other major search engines to their own page <\/a>. This is sort of like a kid baking bread to impress his\/her parents and then proceeding to intentionally plaster the entire kitchen with wet dough, just to be completely certain that they were heard. <\/p>\n

That the proxy hack actually managed to break their own brainchild (when clicking on page 2 of a search result page from google, the proxy hack would redirect that httpo request and return you to the dozomo frontpage), just made it even more pathetic.<\/p>\n

I’m sorry guys, but there were a lot of people at the conference trying to get some work done, and it’s not ok to force your shite on them against their will, even for the sake of a conference art event. hand out flyers next time, and you’ll probably get a lot more friends. <\/p>\n

Personally, like Wendy Seltzer [Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags: WOS: Dozomo<\/a>], I was lucky enough to be running the Tor anonymizing proxy<\/a>, and wasn’t affected by this particular hack. (thanks to robert guerra<\/a>, roger dingledine<\/a> and their hands-on privacy workshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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