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Re: NeoCities

#121
Hi, Hax0r N3ws!

Check out my all-new website showing some oldskool JScripting skillz at http://cd.neocities.org/. You can trick your friends by directing them there.

P.S.: Just checked and it actually works with Internet Exploder 6.0 in an M$ Windoze 98 VM, which I had running in VMWare Player 5.0.2 with my PC's physical DVD drive connected. Should work as long as your Win9x or pre-SP2 XP has WMP 7 installed.

P.P.S.: Do post here if it works for you!

Re: NeoCities

#123
post #4

I think people are aiming to create the original geocities experience too: Examples: http://poeks.neocities.org/ http://skry.neocities.org/ http://jeremy.neocities.org/

Here’s a tool you can use to make it look more authentic:

http://wonder-tonic.com/geocitiesizer/index.php

Re: NeoCities

#124
post #101

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I just fixed it. It was a change I did last night to fix a save bug. My apologies about that, it wasn't a good bug, but hopefully it's the last security-related one. Probably goes without saying, but this is definitely a beta project. I'm doing a lot of other things to protect this kind of attack (filename scrubbing, bcrypt passwords), so I'm pretty red in the face about how dumb this one was. If you find any other b…

> hopefully it's the last security-related one Guaranteed not. I don't mean for you in particular, security requires constant vigilance.

Correction: the last one that's that bad. That was pretty bad.

Re: NeoCities

#127
HN is supposed to be (partly) about the joy of building stuff, and yet this entire thread is all about people pointing out flaws, missing features and minor annoyances instead of saying, "Good job!".

Give the guy a break and a chance to get the project off the ground.

Re: NeoCities

#128
post #97

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You are right, I should have reached out to you directly with this issue. I took the easy route and didn't put in any effort to track you down, for that I am sorry. However, I take exception to you categorizing my post as "trashing other people's work." I feel that I also have a responsibility to publicize such a glaring security hole in your site. This is the number 1 link on HN at the moment. Thousands of people ar…

Here, I'll do one better: If anyone is concerned about the nature/security of the site, here is the source code to NeoCities, ready for anyone to do a full security audit: https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web Pull requests welcome!

Can you put up a license for it?

Re: NeoCities

#129
post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are right, I should have reached out to you directly with this issue. I took the easy route and didn't put in any effort to track you down, for that I am sorry. However, I take exception to you categorizing my post as "trashing other people's work." I feel that I also have a responsibility to publicize such a glaring security hole in your site. This is the number 1 link on HN at the moment. Thousands of people ar…

Here, I'll do one better: If anyone is concerned about the nature/security of the site, here is the source code to NeoCities, ready for anyone to do a full security audit: https://github.com/kyledrake/neocities-web Pull requests welcome!

Good to see. This is the way to respond to these type of mistakes, be completely transparent. Now if only the NSA subscribed to the same plan...

And since it wasn't directed toward me, I guess we all can forget my little rant regarding the "trashing" comment.

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