Decaflon Thread: TED.com Is Having Some Major Troubles

TED.com Is Having Some Major Troubles

Ozone42 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:04:25

If I ran something like ted, I wouldn't invite techcrunch either. I'd want people with you know, open minds and civility.

TED.com Is Having Some Major Troubles

Mike — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:08:22

That Arrington/LeMeur scuffle was hilarious. I didn't know anyone could be that petty.

TED.com Is Having Some Major Troubles

Nils — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:46:47

That's probably Arrington getting back at Le Meur?

Here in case you missed what I'm talking about.

TED.com Is Having Some Major Troubles

Scrivs — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:00:35

How you always come across this stuff is beyond me.

TED.com Is Having Some Major Troubles

Mike — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:45:26

It's pretty late right now so perhaps they'll fix this by the time anyone reads this Note, but TED.com (the big conference website) is having some serious issues at the moment. A few hundred lines of PHP code is sitting at the top of all pages on their website, with their full database information (with password) in there as well. Looks like they use Symfony.

I saved the source here if anybody is interested, though I'm not sure if there are any legal issues associated with putting that up for public viewing. 99.9999% of the code is generic Symfony PHP code that you can find anywhere, but there are some interesting tidbits scattered about if you're a geek like me.

I sent in a contact form submittal at their website alerting them to the problem, and I'll update this note if they get back to me.