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Sorry.
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The Daily WTF has it's own WTF! Just setting the background to black to blank out sensitive details just doesn't work. If you select the text the full email address is revealed. I suppose though this is on a public page on the original site so not really a secret.
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Maybe they name web servers after their favorite board games? Maybe "SETTLERSOFCATAN" is their SQL Server.
(In other news - typo: "Alex Hobson certainly does know where to look")
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That's exactly why I never comment my code...
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I'm no web programmer, but I assume the second comment implies the cgi and perl scripts are emitting hardcoded html.
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"Alex Hobson certainly does not where to look"
I not that there is a typo above, but I do not not where it is.
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Not only that but they are probably using fixed string parsing to interpret the source HTML while it is being emitted.
Grep sed and awk are powerful tools thanks to regular expressions, but they can be abused and tortured beyond all recognition.
The same goes for Perl.
(try 1)
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I'd name them all after Risk (risk1, risk2, etc.)
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Let's contact J. Roberts to get more information on how it's implemented.
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RiskStarWars, RiskLordOfTheRings, RiskSpongeBob, etc.
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How about the very end of the page where this is found:
which links to a file that says:
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Ok, I have to ask... who looks at page source code for no reason? Is there someone out there who enjoys this?
Seriously, who are you people?
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I found this in the thedailywtf.com's source:
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Looks like a real WTF to me ;)
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I often look at source code for websites that aren't behaving as they should, to try and find out what is breaking and if I can get around it. In this case, the entire codebase sounds about as well-engineered and reliable as a house of cards made out of different-sized cards, so I'm sure if I had to interact with it for any length of time I'd end up viewing source as well.
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DOA, I'm one of those dorks. The page gets flagged as 100% valid HTML which is very rare so when I see that I just have to take a look.
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TRWTF is thinking the failed redaction of the e-mail address is a WTF. I, for one, think it was a calculated move done on purpose.
Then again, I may be having FAR too much faith in people.
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Yeah, I had a good laugh at that. I'm sure it's probably intentional though, given the article!
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That's how I always encrypt my personal information!
VISA: 4687943124687
Social Security Number: 123-45-6789 AHHH!!! NO! Go away.
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The Sorry Server is a Canadian fork of Apache. It replaces all client-side errors with 500 codes, and modifies outgoing content by injecting the letter "u", and rearranging "er" into "re".
We're still working on the ModEh patch. Sorry.
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Oh, that;'s the fixed version, so you should be fine. The previous one had a bug in it:
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The sorry server probably requests that page periodically to make sure everything is OK. Any changes to the particular string they are checking (title) would cause the sorry server to step in, intercepting requests and replying with a "sorry slug" or something.
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A website that has
<!-- *snipped* a bunch of JavaScript that Google told us to put in. Seemed pretty pointless and caused an error. We don't need no stinking JavaScript. --> <!-- span style="font-size:90%;"> <b>Non-WTF Job:</b> <a href="http://jobs.thedailywtf.com/listing.aspx?JobId=1001480">C++ Developer at Good Grievance</a> (Ronkonkoma, NY) </span -->and
<!-- <a href="http://ru.thedailywtf.com"><img src="/Resources/Images/countries/ru.png" alt="Русский Вариант" height="11" width="16" border="0" style="border:solid 1px #CCC" /></a> -->Shouldn't be making fun of other people leaving comments in their html.
lastly
/* WTF would TDWTF be without a hack like this? / if (document.getElementById && document.getElementById('MainContent') && document.getElementById('MainContent').style && document.getElementById('CommonSidebar') && document.getElementById('CommonSidebar').offsetHeight) { / since there is no "good way" to have a "liquid" and a "stretchy" column without tables(*), I'll use this bit of hackery. It usually doesn't work in FireFox (since offsetHeight isn't known until rendering is done), but it tends to work OK in everything else most of the time and doesn't create a "jumpy" effect */ document.getElementById('MainContent').style.minHeight = document.getElementById('CommonSidebar').offsetHeight;
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A "Sorry Server" is just a backup node/VIP for your primary node/VIP if it fails a content check. We used it to provide a "Sorry, we're undergoing maintenance" page if the main site was unreachable for various reasons.
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I certainly does not where to comment.
To those leet hackers that are finding the 'redacted' email address, is this your first visit here?
And DeVry.edu is full of all types of these if you have the time to poke around.
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I need the Expiration date for that Visa card. Plz?
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"Sorry server" is a term also used by certain Linux IPVS (load distribution) daemons. If the health check fails to match a page with a specific pattern, it will remove that particular server from the pool and, if none are left, will send all traffic to the sorry server.
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Is the word "Univeristy" like a UUID or something?
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How in the world are we going to do that when his e-mail address had been redacted?
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Better serv than sorry
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You're sure that this is not a Jacobite institution that tries to fight grade inflation by limiting As?
Captcha: caecus, what you think your users are blind?
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I once had a coworker who put html comments in her php code, but she didn't understand html enough to use the right comment tags. She used "<!**" instead of "<!--".
Firefox was forgiving enough to figure out what she was trying to do when it rendered the page for the screen. But then someone tried printing the page out and all of the comments ended up mixed in with the text.
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Comments about comments... I should rest now.
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TRWTF is the number of people being had by the obvious troll. Purposeful failed redaction is purposeful.
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/* WTF would TDWTF be without a hack like this? */
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I just typed random digits. Sorry.
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To be fair, that last comment is pretty accurate.
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Yeah, that's pretty sad.
In other news, you can see the full email address by highlighting the blacked-out part in your browser-- not exactly the best way to preserve confidentiality.
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HTTP 506 I'm Sorry
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That fails Luhn. Did you mean: 4687943124685?
It also has the wrong number of digits, but that's another story...
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There. Fixed it for you.
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This is the kind of trash you get when you edit your webpages in Frontpage.
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Have a look at the 4th & 3rd from last lines on the main page:
going to the source of the .js: Um.... I think it's time to re-review their site for legacy scripts.