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atkins
atkins aka Atkins Meyer is a 33.46 year old boy, has been a member since November 5, 2007, has scored 7,638 submissions, giving an average score of 2.34, helping 114 designs get printed.
Last night I discovered that some one was taking advantage of the tags which we allow to be placed in the blogs and blog comments. They embedded a remotely hosted swf file as a video object on innocent looking product comments. The result was that anyone looking at product pages with these naughty comments was tagged with the cheaters street team information.

This little trick worked really well and with their comments on only a handful of product pages they were racking up around $1k per hour in STP. So for now, we've removed the ability to use object tags in the forums. But what about YouTube videos you ask? Just paste in the url of the YouTube video you want to post and we will automatically embed it in the post or comment.

Now I present to you, Robocop the Musical


angelito
angelito on Mar 15 '11 at 2:25pm
sneaky sneaky
ir0cko
   ir0cko on Mar 15 '11 at 2:32pm
dang :\
[+duracell-]
[+duracell-] on Mar 15 '11 at 2:37pm
Object tags in profiles still ok?
alexmdc
   alexmdc on Mar 15 '11 at 2:37pm
tsk tsk, but that youtube linking stuff is a cool feature
psherman42
psherman42 on Mar 15 '11 at 2:38pm
Was it that thdl_sale account? I noticed that my STP link was set to that but couldn't remember clicking any link that would give it to him/her.
SuperRyan
SuperRyan on Mar 15 '11 at 2:39pm
hackers be hackin'

:^(
Maltzmania
Maltzmania on Mar 15 '11 at 2:40pm
Steve The Great
Steve The Great on Mar 15 '11 at 2:40pm
jerks!
Resistance
   Resistance on Mar 15 '11 at 2:41pm
I wondered what was going on.. brilliant strategy, but like in Office Space. they underestimated how well it would work.
Steve The Great
Steve The Great on Mar 15 '11 at 2:42pm
martiandrivein
   martiandrivein on Mar 15 '11 at 2:46pm
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Mar 15 '11 at 3:05pm
Wow, that's some exploit.
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Mar 15 '11 at 5:54pm
Bump for others.
iPear
iPear on Mar 15 '11 at 5:56pm
aww man that's cool, you guys are wizards.
quick-brown-fox
   quick-brown-fox on Mar 17 '11 at 3:22am
Bump, this solved my problem - thanks!
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Mar 17 '11 at 12:35pm
Bump.
Chipmnk
Chipmnk on Mar 17 '11 at 12:35pm
Bump.
iPear
iPear on Mar 17 '11 at 12:37pm
nump
tracerbullet
   tracerbullet on Mar 17 '11 at 12:38pm
dang, that's like a modern day version of the old STP Gate with the image code hack.
randyotter3000
   randyotter3000 on Mar 17 '11 at 12:39pm
Probably staffell doing it again
Boycey
Boycey on Mar 17 '11 at 12:42pm
Ah, yes. Good. luckily Steve The Great told me that --- I wondered why I couldn't post videos the regular way.

Works perfectly!
fatheed
   fatheed on Mar 17 '11 at 12:45pm
And I'd have gotten away with it if it weren't for you snooping kids.
fatheed
   fatheed on Mar 17 '11 at 12:45pm
This is a much neater solution, in any case. Good woooork.
biotwist
   biotwist on Mar 17 '11 at 12:51pm
i forgot we had tags
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