The Digg worm that wasn’t

Two nights ago I was editing my Digg profile and couldn’t help but think about the recent Mikeyy and Twitter revolt. Within minutes I had found a XSS exploit that could theoretically allow me to achieve the same.

Half an hour later, I had a working worm ready to infect everyone that saw my profile page, which also would propagate to theirs.

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