Has anyone seen this it looks like Myspace is to take legal action against iPower. http://www.broadbandreports.com/shownews/79533
Maybe I'm blind or I don't know how to read between the lines, but I don't see either anything there to suggest myspace will take action against ipower for the incident described there. The last question there is interesting: Ordinarily, none. That's what legal fine prints are for, and as long as they fully comply with federal and state laws.
I find it interesting that some people in that thread were blaming Myspace for their security flaws. They operate a site, you use the site as-is, and you assume the risks. Simple as that. If they did not allow user entered HTML on their site, their site would absolutely suck, because it wouldn't be configurable at all. I agree though that Myspace is becoming a virtual cesspool and it's become so overrun with spammers and scammers and nothing has been done to stop this. And like I said above, many of the implementations that could be used to stop this, would also detract from the appeal that is Myspace by limiting features and customization. I think Myspace needs to seriously address this problem though and find some kind of solution, otherwise the entire site is just going to eventually blow up... It doesn't seem like they are seriously planning for Myspace to be a long-term venture. They seem to be just milking it for all its worth and when the bottom falls out, they'll toss it aside. I could easily see someone creating a sort of Myspace worm that would basically incapacitate the entire site. Just from observing the vulnerabilities and the general architecture of the scripting, it seems like a likely possibility.