Pranking News Organizations Online

from the fun-stuff dept

An article in the Village Voice about a number of news pranks that have been showing up. They explain the loophole that makes it look like a link is coming from any major news source, when it really isn’t. It’s a very simple hack that most people probably don’t know about.


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