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		staunch on April 9, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google App Engine page already owned by hackers Most everyone doing lots of web apps gets bitten by XSS at some point. Nothing embarrassing about it IMHO.

dcurtis on April 9, 2008 [–]

But Google has probably hired ten PhDs just to make sure none of their products gets exploited like this.

But the PhDs failed. Thus, it's newsworthy.

jmzachary on April 9, 2008 | [–]

Hiring PhDs for this task was their first mistake.

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