[geeks] How dumb is this...

Mark md.benson at gmail.com
Fri Feb 15 01:32:56 CST 2008


On 15 Feb 2008, at 06:00, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> I fell for it - I didn't scratch the surface and took it at face  
> value - in my defense, I saw it, questioned it and ran away, you on  
> the other hand stopped and looked under the covers.

There's no harm in doing a 'view source' on a webpage. It's quite a  
good practice to get into if you suspect foul play, in fact.

> I came upon it from google.com looking for an ssh application for my  
> iPhone.

Quite a clever piece of memetic exploitation engineering really :)

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