American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-trap" is clicked

Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by tedks on Friday April 04, 2014 @11:01AM (#7531787)

Undergrads won't open that link, and grad students and faculty are too busy.

To really do damage, you need to create something that'll go viral, and piggyback the link on it. Undergrads will click anything that looks fun. Make it look fun and you're golden.

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by MichaelGG on Friday April 04, 2014 @08:24PM (#7535364)

You wouldn't need to click the link. Just include it on another page as an img src. Right?

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by userbinator on Saturday April 05, 2014 @08:56AM (#7536903)

Things like signatures on forums visited by university students are the first to come to mind. Embed it through one of the many referer-stripping redirectors out there, and none could be the wiser...

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by mikeash on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:35PM (#7532558)

If you're up for a little fraud, get a list of faculty and undergrad e-mails and send e-mails to undergrads purporting to be from faculty saying, "Please read this and be ready to discuss in class on Monday." The hit rate will be low, but you're bound to get a few students who really do have that professor's class on Monday and will click it.

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Re:American Chemical Society bans university after "spider-t... by ams6110 on Saturday April 05, 2014 @02:22AM (#7536169)

Send it to the adminstrative staff then, they spend about 50% of their day surfing.

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