A day in the life of a web2.0 hacker

10 a.m.: It's time to unleash my new Facebook app, a cute game about putting kittens in the microwave that's really designed to harvest your personal information. By running my app you agree to share your entire profile with me, and if you've posted anything even remotely useful to me (like a credit card number), then I figure you deserve to have me steal it. Here's an similar bit of trickery I wish I'd thought of: In March 2008, the Aurigma ActiveX image uploader was used to cause buffer overflow attacks that planted malware on users' PCs.

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