http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-13T19:48:53+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-13T19:48:53+00:002009-04-13T19:48:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/13/amazonfail/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html">How to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code</a></strong></p> Looks legit—the author claims to have sparked this weekend’s #amazonfail moral outrage (where Amazon where accused of removing Gay and Lesbian books from their best seller rankings) by exploiting a CSRF hole in Amazon’s “report as inappropriate” feature to trigger automatic takedowns. EDIT: His claim is disputed elsewhere (see comments) <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazon">amazon</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/amazonfail">amazonfail</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/csrf">csrf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/prdisaster">prdisaster</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a></p>