How I hacked Digg

Re:How I hacked Digg by yan on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @02:13PM (#209187)

While I support full-disclosure, I don't think the author acted responsibly. He didn't give them enough time to respond, he didn't make any extra effort to contact digg's engineers and he also very publically bragged about it.

He didn't try to act modest and he used the buzzword 'hack' which appeals more to non-technical than to technical people. Publicity stunt if you ask me.

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Re:How I hacked Digg by jrockway on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @02:14PM (#209189)

You seem surprised. Digg is one of the most popular sites on the Internet; the guy is (rightfully) proud that he can make it break horribly.

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Re:How I hacked Digg by breck on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @03:19PM (#209266)

"Publicity stunt if you ask me."

For sure, but isn't everything on Digg a publicity stunt?

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Re:How I hacked Digg by bgutierrez on Wednesday June 04, 2008 @07:20PM (#209473)

Agreed. A couple of weeks as a bare minimum, to give engineers a chance to make fixes and test thoroughly.

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