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Because everyone on my friends list seems to be doing it and I don't want everyone's stuff messed up:
IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ!!!
DO NOT CLICK ON THE 'THIS IS INTERESTING' or 'WHOS SAUSAGE IS LONGEST' LINKS YOU MAY SEE IN YOUR FRIENDS LIST. IT IS A LJ HACK THAT WILL STEAL YOUR LJ PASSWORD AND POSSIBLY LOCK YOU OUT OF LJ (BY CHANGING YOUR LJ PASSWORD). IT IS ALONG THE SAME LINES AS THE RUSSIAN 'NAME' MEME THAT WENT AROUND YESTERDAY!
If you *do* click it, your password was sent to the owner of that website. You should change your LJ password *immediately*, and sign off, then clear any cookies out in your browser before signing back into LJ.
More info:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/308563.html
PLEASE READ THIS AND POST IT INYOUR OWN JOURNAL, AND YOUR COMMUNITIES. PASS IT ON!!!
I dunno how true this is, all I know is my friends list is full of the automatic entries by the same people as the ones who have used the sausage thing...
-crystal
EDIT:
paisleychick says: they do NOT steal your password. They do exploit a vulnerability, but they do NOT steal your password. You can check out info at http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_support/483699.html
Stolen from being_homeless
IMPORTANT!!! PLEASE READ!!!
DO NOT CLICK ON THE 'THIS IS INTERESTING' or 'WHOS SAUSAGE IS LONGEST' LINKS YOU MAY SEE IN YOUR FRIENDS LIST. IT IS A LJ HACK THAT WILL STEAL YOUR LJ PASSWORD AND POSSIBLY LOCK YOU OUT OF LJ (BY CHANGING YOUR LJ PASSWORD). IT IS ALONG THE SAME LINES AS THE RUSSIAN 'NAME' MEME THAT WENT AROUND YESTERDAY!
If you *do* click it, your password was sent to the owner of that website. You should change your LJ password *immediately*, and sign off, then clear any cookies out in your browser before signing back into LJ.
More info:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/308563.html
PLEASE READ THIS AND POST IT INYOUR OWN JOURNAL, AND YOUR COMMUNITIES. PASS IT ON!!!
I dunno how true this is, all I know is my friends list is full of the automatic entries by the same people as the ones who have used the sausage thing...
-crystal
EDIT:
paisleychick says: they do NOT steal your password. They do exploit a vulnerability, but they do NOT steal your password. You can check out info at http://www.livejournal.com/community/lj_support/483699.html
Stolen from being_homeless