Over 1 Million Visitors! (in a day)
- Category: Website
- Posted On: 2/2/2005
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"Over 1 Million Served" - I think this is a trademark of McDonalds.
My MSN Space received over 1 million visitors yesterday afternoon and evening from Microsoft.com. 
Check out the attached "screenshot" of my MSN Spaces stats. I am so happy! Abbie also received a couple thousand visitors from CNN.com (read the comments to this story). 
Actually, it was discovered yesterday how MSN Spaces tracks visits to a "space". The image depicting my 1,106,349 visits yesterday was not "doctored". It is the real thing. Now before MSN gets upset at me... I have submitted a "feedback" ticket exposing the vulnerability. They had better fix it too, because I think it may be susceptible to DDOS attacks. I'm not willing to give it a try that's for sure!!! I think I pushed my "legal" bounds doing what I did just to get 1M visits to explain the vulnerability. I suppose I could have just submitted a ticket.
Whether or not this "issue" is a hacking vulnerability, is for Microsoft to decide. It is, however, a problem, since I could issue mock referrals to any "space" I wanted from any website I wanted. This would be in clear violation of the Section 4 of the Terms below. My fun on Abbie's stats is likely a violation of this section and I am hoping MSN will show mercy and not shut-down my space. 
(hug) I should note that my silly 1M mark hardly affected your server's resources (no worries - can't explain here since it might give away the vulnerability).
!!!SHOW MERCY MSN!!!
I have "ceased and desisted".
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- Category: Website
- Posted On: 2/2/2005
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