crucial

how not to get your myspaced hacked

myspace web2.0

This is a public service announcement. Jan 2, 2008

one of your friends appears to send you a stupid thing to post as a comment. you know its spam, because your friends would never post anything that stupid.

when you get the request to post the comment and myspace asks you to deny/approve, deny it. then

then when you are on the SECOND screen when myspace asks you to confirm , hover the mouse over the deny/submit area and if it says a URL in your status bar at the bottom, then DON'T CLICK. just leave it.

the comment is already denied. myspace shouldn't be asking us twice anyway.

the spammers hide a link on top of that (the CSS extends the click area of the image) so that when you click on it some javascript gets executed and injects a message into myspace as though it were you. and it then sends that to all of us. its something like that, some cross site scripting attack. fascinating if you are into web tools, but ...

oh, and grow up and stop using myspace. that's just for kids and musicians.

Links and things

I am timeblind on myspace. thanks for the add.

I am crucialfelix on del.icio.us which is where I link to all the interesting shit I come across.

I put my photos up on flickr

NYC events iCal : anything that looks good.

Berlin events (parties, shows, vernissage, films): subscribe to google calendar / iCal

When I listen to music at home it all gets echoed onto here and on my Last.fm page. Most of the time I don't use that cause I don't want you to see me obsessively listening to my own mixes, really bad working titles.

You can read some posts I thought were interesting from various feeds.

I've been doing the Dance Music Business Resource since 1995, back when it was on hyperreal.org. Articles and info for artists and small labels. Recently I've been posting interesting industry news items and adding some new content about downloads etc.