Film at 11: Dramazon

[athelind]

Terse summary with links:

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• Amazon debacle as GLBT books "deranked" and dropped from keyword searches.
  
  
• "Hacker" claims he responsibility, "for the lulz".
  
  
• Lulzsucker's claim evidently BUSTED.
  
  
• Amazon claims it's all an "embarrassing and ham-fisted mistake".
  
  
• Your Obedient Serpent's current assessment: Hanlon's Razor.
  
  
• Edit/Addendum: A more eloquent and detailed analysis that also leans toward Hanlon's Razor.
  

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Comments

[halfelf.livejournal.com]

You might want to remove the 'Hacker' link. It doesn't go exactly where you think it goes, and seems to do weird things.

[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

I'd viewed the 'Hacker' link earlier when hakeber posted it; originally there was a post there with his full confession and why he did it and how he did it. It now is (when I view it in Safari anyways) a 'protected' entry that can't be viewed, at least, not by non-community members like me.

Either he really was busted, I think, or he's re-writing it to be more plausible.

[athelind.livejournal.com]

Weird. I can see it just fine; I only skimmed it each time, so it might be, as you say, a rewrite.

[drakegrey.livejournal.com]

It was definitely "You are not authorized to view this protected entry" when I wrote that above.

No matter, and it's of no consequence of course, either way.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

A new link: a programmer in France translated "adulte," which they use to mean erotic, as "adult," and entered a code which affected every site. Details here.