Primordial Ooze

I got an interesting piece of comment spam this morning. The message was:

you are fucking gay

The url, and there is always a url, was a user on myspace.com. I don’t want to give the exact url since that probably wouldn’t be a good idea.

But I was curious.

I loaded up a fresh Virtual PC image with undo disks enabled. This allows me to do anything I want with that Virtual PC and when I’m done, I shit it down and “delete changes” which basically reverts the VPC back to the state it was in before I started it. A complete undo. Going back in time. Cool.

I loaded the myspace.com page into IE and FireFox and the page would load into neither. Perhaps the page was trying to exploit some vulnerability in these web browsers? Not sure. My VPC didn’t really stick around long enough to find out.

But, I was still curious. I wondered if there was actually a page behind that URL. So, I fired up trusty old TELNET and issued this command:

telnet myspace.com 80

Web servers are text-based monsters, really, and this kind of thing is very natural. As long as you give the web server what it wants, it will talk back intelligently. So, I wanted to use the GET command to get the document in question. The command was basically this:

GET /the-url-that-I-won’t-mention HTTP/1.0

Then I hit enter twice. Don’t ask, you just have to hit enter twice. Viola, the page displayed as raw HTML. I saved this and viewed it in Lynx. I mean, who would exploit a vulnerability in Lynx? I mean, ARE there any vulnerabilities in Lynx?

The username was poop. Poop has two friends. Tom and Zoe. Zoe added a comment, which reads:

alex cannon is a genius
alex cannon is a genius
alex cannon is a genius
he writes the most beautifullest songs ever!!!!

Never trust anyone who uses more than one exclamation point. Also, Alex obviously rates and I’m just fucking gay. Still curious, I googled for “he writes the most beautifullest songs ever!!!!” Nothing. Then, “alex cannon is a genius”. Nothing.

Thats’ it. Now I know.