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YouTube has a little local difficulty in Arabia

24 Apr 2008 10:10

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Here's what happened. 

By SpitefulGOD
Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 11:43 GMT
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Google made a secret pact with the UAE Authorities to give them access to the profiles of the people in their country (either that or have the domain banned in Arab land), unfortunately the SQL was wrong.

I have seen this 

By Kevin Roche
Posted Thursday 24th April 2008 15:26 GMT

A long time ago (1997) this happened several times in different organisations. Caching web gateways set wrongly and cahing the page without any reference to teh query string or form variables.

Really nasty but easy to fix.

youtube.. why? 

By Mark
Posted Tuesday 29th April 2008 10:57 GMT

Why is youtube mentioned in the title? It's not youtube's fault.

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