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Business Movers

Fighting for MySpace | Unintended Consequences | 2

Business Movers

Wondery

History, Business, Entrepreneurship

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

As MySpace starts to take off, thanks to a mistake and Tila Tequila, Chris and Tom fail to see the potential dangers of the site.

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0:31.0

It's September 2003 in the halls of eUniverse headquarters in Los Angeles.

0:37.0

Chris DeWolf and Tom Anderson make a beeline for the Office of MySpace Project Manager Kyle Brinkman.

0:43.0

MySpace has only been live for a month, but major issues are already piling up for Chris and Tom's response based team.

0:51.0

Users aren't coming to MySpace, and eUniverse CEO Bragg Greenspan is losing patience.

0:56.0

But right now, Chris and Tom have a bigger problem to deal with than lack of traffic.

1:01.0

Computer programmer Gabe Harriman has just done a complete rebuild of MySpace to make it easier to alter and update the site.

1:08.0

But Chris and Tom are convinced Gabe dropped the ball when it came to designing the site's security systems.

1:15.0

Chris and Tom storm into Kyle's office.

1:18.0

Kyle, the site's been hacked. You have to fix it. What are you talking about?

1:22.0

Tom and I just spent several minutes looking at a profile page with bright blue wallpaper and some hearts and smiley faces on it.

1:28.0

A bunch of other profiles with colored backgrounds. We've been hacked.

1:31.0

Oh, yeah, I've seen those pages. I thought the same thing at first too, but it's not it. Trust me.

1:36.0

And what the hell's going on? When Gabe worked on the rebuild, he and the other programmers made a mistake.

1:41.0

They didn't block markup and the user submissions.

1:44.0

Okay, what does that mean?

1:45.0

Well, you know, most websites that allow users to post photos or text block any insertion of web languages like HTML.

1:52.0

No, I still don't get it. These websites block users from being able to control what their page looks like.

1:58.0

Gabe messed up. He didn't do that. And these users took advantage.

2:02.0

Okay. So they uploaded some code.

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