Trump website flaw allowed anyone to ‘hack’ it
There are only a few more hours until the polls close, but that doesn’t mean election fever has died just yet. A few clever folks on the internet have discovered that there’s a flaw on Donald Trump’s campaign website where you can just drop whatever words you like in the latter half of the URL, and, well, the page will just display it. Here are a few examples that we’ve seen on the internet.
Fun with URL hacking. https://t.co/UWU2r69DSL pic.twitter.com/KMdW0GQXQ6
— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) November 8, 2016
Holy shit. You can make it say anything! https://t.co/ajSeCiICC4 pic.twitter.com/OVBiAWVnAq
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) November 8, 2016
Trump should fire his web developers.https://t.co/Zs69CkTqNG pic.twitter.com/ZGyJIjTidu
— Michael Margolis (@yipe) November 8, 2016
It doesn’t seem to be a malicious hack, but well, just quirky code. Indeed, as of this writing, it looks like the code has been fixed and you can’t play with the URL anymore. Oh well. Back to your regular election day programming.
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