Poorly implemented rule allowed miscreants to deceive users with trusted URLs
Elon Musk's X has apparently fixed an embarrassing issue implemented earlier in the week that royally bungled URLs on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.Even though the Twitter.com domain is still active, used by many, and important pages such as its Help Center still rely on the domain, apparently it was imperative to the team that Xeet links simply must be on-brand.
The issue with this new feature was that it was implemented poorly, changing any mention of"Twitter" anywhere in a URL string to"x," which of course opened up a bag of security worms., a domain that was kindly picked up by a fast-acting Xeeter so it couldn't be used by bad actors. The potential for abuse here would be rife, given the number of legitimate, well-known brands most people would blindly trust. Netflix, Plex, Roblox, Clorox, Xerox – you get the picture.
That's not even considering the potential for abuse of X-rated sites horned-up users might be otherwise too flustered to double-check for authenticity.Unsurprisingly, X hasn't addressed this publicly – likely in an attempt to avoid drawing attention to the blunder. We've also given up following journalistic practice when it comes to trying to contact its press team.
For those not in the know, soon after Musk took over, he fired the PR team and set all inbound communications to its inbox to auto-reply with a poop emoji. Now it's just:"Busy now, please check back later."Without any official account of the timeline here, we resort to searching past Xeets to see how long the error went unchecked.
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