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Originally Posted by Krystian Galaj
Here is the summary of a hacker on how he did it (you have to click you're 18 years or older to access it): http://community.livejournal.com/bru...y/3168992.html
I'm not good at technical details on feasibility of such an attack, so maybe someone more knowledgeable can read it and say if it makes sense. |
Considering Amazon is sending out letters to authors explaining how they're writing inappropriate content, I'd say this is just a moron trying to get credit.
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There are literally thousands, probably tens of thousands, of academic books that are affected. Every single book on queer theory and gender studies appears to have been Amazonfailed, along with a lot of psychology textbooks and a whole bunch of books on geography, and probably hundreds or thousands of books on anthropology and cultural studies. It's dizzying going through all the citations and realizing how many books aren't searchable on amazon anymore.
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You'd almost wonder if it was a christian fundamentalist, soon-to-be ex-employee job-suicide bomber that wants to "make a statement" because it's "easter". Banning the entirety of scholarly literature even remotely concerned with gay sexuality from the search results seems even sillier than banning "gay-themed" (such as, and this seams sort of reaching, Stephen Fry's Memoirs) literature.
Anyway, I am not amused.