[thechat] WSJ security hole

Madhu Menon webguru at vsnl.net
Mon Jan 20 14:25:00 CST 2003


I just heard about this (and forgive me if you already know).

If you don't have the money to cough up for accessing the Wall Street
Journal, a little URL hacking seems to do the trick.

By changing the "article" in the URL to "article_email", you can read
"subscriber only" articles.

So while this is expensive:
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1042670008729737744,00.html

this is FREE:
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1042670008729737744,00.html


Ta da!

Regards,

Madhu

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