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DO NOT CLICK ON THE 'THIS IS INTERESTING' or 'WHOS SAUSAGE IS LONGEST' LINKS YOU MAY SEE IN YOUR FRIENDS LIST. IT IS A LJ HACK THAT WILL STEAL YOUR LJ PASSWORD AND POSSIBLY LOCK YOU OUT OF LJ (BY CHANGING YOUR LJ PASSWORD). IT IS ALONG THE SAME LINES AS THE RUSSIAN 'NAME' MEME THAT WENT AROUND YESTERDAY
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1). There was no security risk to these memes. They did not have your password. They could not get your password. The only thing that they could do was cause an entry to be posted to your journal, by telling LJ "hey, post an entry with this content, using the username and password that's in the login cookie". It could not read the login cookie, nor could it save the cookie elsewhere. It did not work if you were not logged into LJ at the time.
2). It's academic, because it's been fixed, and the fix is live.
EDIT: [...]No, they are not security risks, and yes, they are being patched. There is no risk of data loss, and no risk of losing control of your journal."
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