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Yesterday’s TweetDeck Activity Disrupted by Heart Symbol [CNN]

12
Jun
2014

It appears that yesterdays ruckus with TweetDeck was caused by a 19-year-old Austrian teenager that found that typing hearts creates a heart symbol in HTML. Named Florian, the teen discovered that this created a door in TweetDeck that allowed injection of commands via a tweet. It wasn’t a hack. It was some sort of accident, […]

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Today’s TweetDeck collapse may have been triggered by an Austrian teen

12
Jun
2014

At 8:05 EDT, the account @FiroXL tweeted a simple test: some javascript tags along with a heart symbol and a German phrase that translates roughly to I wonder if this will work… It worked: the tags did their job and the heart symbol, which Twitter would normally mangle, came through TweetDeck just fine, indicating the […]

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