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What is this??? In the first <blockquote> of the article: <p> 20,000 FBI EMPLOYEES NAMES, TITLES, PHONE NUMBERS, EMAILS, COUNTRY <a href="</p">penis </a> <a hr

by nmc 11y ago

What is this??? In the first <blockquote> of the article: <p> 20,000 FBI EMPLOYEES NAMES, TITLES, PHONE NUMBERS, EMAILS, COUNTRY <a href="</p">penis </a> <a href="https://twitter.com/DotGovs/statuses/696796442850156545">February https://twitter.com/DotGovs/statuses/696796442850156545">Feb... 8, 2016</a> </p> Notice the weird <a> tag in the middle.

spike021 11y ago
Looks like the embedded tweet has the twitter handle's 'name', which is penis.
- nmc 11y ago
  Thanks, I had not figured that out! Why is the href set to "</p" then?
  - anc84 11y ago
    A protest against patriarchy, it's the symbol of dismemberment.
- _yosefk 11y ago
  My old Chrome version actually renders the penis (the text, I mean) for a split second and then it disappears.
  - pc86 11y ago
    Thank god it's only the text
  - niuzeta 11y ago
    bringing new meaning to 'NSFW tweet'
SeeDave 11y ago
This is probably the most bizarre hyperlink I've run across. I share your confusion, and couldn't be laughing any harder right now.
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jimrandomh 11y ago
It appears to have been edited out, but that looks like a remnant of someone probing for cross-site scripting vulnerabilities by putting mismatched quotes and tags into places they don't belong.
- nmc 11y ago
  You are right, the <blockquote> seems to have been replaced by a <img> tag. Also, I can indeed imagine how this would be caused by improper parsing of double quotes and angled brackets.