The Shrollys release patch for critical Craigslist search security flaw
Some of you may have noticed a day or two of no spam from my Craigslist search engine last week. I know that my mailbox was suspiciously empty, except for a stream of errors from my cron job:
no token found at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/Text/Query.pm line 125
It all started at about 10:40pm on April 15 as Katie and I were just sitting at our computers, wasting some time. After several email exchanges with my web host support team, they told me that Query.pm is working fine. And it occurred to me, maybe the problem isn’t on their end but on mine instead? What could have gone wrong?
As it turns out, while I thought Katie was just innocently surfing the web next to me, she was actually injecting a virus into my Craigslist script that caused it to consistently crash for the next two days. All it took was a blank “advanced” search to kill it. Excellent work, Katie! Who knows what sweet deals we missed as a result of this chicanery!
Kinda sugar-coated the headline there, didn’t you? It just as easily could have read: “Known Shrolly hacker extraordinaire strikes again! Dozens without cheap firewood!”
So boo to the Shrollys for being so nefarious! And huzzah to the Shrollys for thwarting those rapscallions!