{"id":2850,"date":"2004-10-03T08:03:09","date_gmt":"2004-10-03T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/03\/has-flickr-been-hijacked\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:36:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:36:55","slug":"has-flickr-been-hijacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/03\/has-flickr-been-hijacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Has flickr been hijacked?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8665,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blog.flickr.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20071011115342\\\/http:\\\/\\\/blog.flickr.com:80\\\/?&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 14:24:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 01:21:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 01:21:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Flickr hasn&#8217;t been loading for me at all today &#8212; all morning long it was giving me a DNS error saying that the server couldn&#8217;t be found.<\/p>\n<p>Now I seem to be getting <em>something<\/em>&#8230;but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m getting what I&#8217;m supposed to be getting, and I&#8217;m afraid that were I running an exploitable browser (like, oh, Internet Exploder), I might be getting some nasty surprises.<\/p>\n<p>Loading the main flickr page ( http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/ ) stalls for a while, and then loads one of the many generic &#8220;looks like a search page while we install exploits onto your system&#8221; pages that float around when domains disappear. Included in the page are two javascripts, one of which ( http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/js\/pu.js ) is loading a popunder window.<\/p>\n<p>This is really a shame. Looks like someone forgot to renew their domain on time, and it got snapped up from underneath them. Hopefully it all gets straightened out soon.<\/p>\n<p>Update: They appear to be back. No word (yet?) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.flickr.com\/\" title=\"FlickrBlog\">flickr blog<\/a> as to what might have happened.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;bids=78941.10000002&#38;subid=0&#38;type=4&#38;gridnum=-1\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSheep on Drugs%2526albumTerm=One for the Money%2526songTerm=X-Lover%26partnerId%3D30\">X-Lover<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSheep on Drugs%26partnerId%3D30\">Sheep on Drugs<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&#38;offerid=78941&#38;type=3&#38;subid=0&#38;tmpid=1826&#38;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DSheep on Drugs%2526albumTerm=One for the Money%26partnerId%3D30\">One for the Money<\/a><\/em> (1997, 3:55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flickr hasn&#8217;t been loading for me at all today &mdash; all morning long it was giving me a DNS error saying that the server couldn&#8217;t be found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[58,27],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-internet","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}