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by smaudet 1281 days ago
Is the primary motivator to do this?

I'm curious if they are stealing anything else, e.g. are they selling ads/tracking, do they replace order forms with their own...

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because I asked them to stop doing it, and they didn't. Technically they were stealing my bandwidth.

Also to teach them an important lesson about the internet.

haha, they're just lucky you didn't introduce them to Goatse
well actually...

there was another time a site hotlinked to a js file. After asking them to stop, i found that they had a contact form with a homebrew captcha which created the letters image like http://evilsite.com/cgi-bin/captcha.jpg?q=ansr

A little while later, their captcha form had a hidden input appended with the correct answer value, and the word to solve was changed to a new 4 letter word from a dictionary of interesting 4 letter words. The form still worked because of the hidden input. I might have changed the name on the "real" input also.