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by jacquesm 4098 days ago
At least put some basic protection in place. There was a time when you could have launched this website without a problem, say 1995 or so. Today this is no longer possible.

To the dumbass downvoting me: I just took a look with wget and the current homepage will set you in a loop that starts up endless mailer windows until your machine crashes. Good luck.

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It looks like it intentionally didn't have any protections in place. The edit page has the comment <!-- Feel free to take advantage of the lack of CSRF protection -->

It also has <h1>What could possibly go wrong.</h1> go wrong in the default editor source.

Was it irresponsible? Yes zq should have put a warning for sure. Still a cool experiment. Twitch Plays Pokemon with bigger repercussions.