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"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! FORTUNATELY THE RUSSIAN ONE CAN'T READ

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Re: right from the link...stop spreading junk people

[whooosh]

EDIT: Officials say you don't have to change your password if you've accidentally clicked and had it posted, and that this is "trivial." What this thing does is use your browser's session info, temporarily masquerading as you to post a message in your journal that links back to the hack, all in order to encourage more people to unknowingly spread it. I've written some other thoughts on how this could have been harmful - but this one wasn't, since apparently this particular iteration did nothing aside from posting a message - and, theoretically, could have done nothing but post a message. Your password was not stolen, despite early reports to the contrary. Your user info is safe. And some from LJ claim the the security hole is fixed (though there are others who claim angrily that it isn't; I'm too tired to investigate the particulars right now

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the sausage thing was in kotu's journal.