“The New York Times paywall is costing the newspaper $40-$50 million to design and construct, Bloomberg has reported,” Joshua Benton reports for The Neiman Journalism Lab.
And it can be defeated through four lines of Javascript.
Benton reports, “The Times paywall doesn’t launch in the United States for another week; the paper has plenty of time to plug this particular Javascript vulnerability, which goes by the name NYTClean, if it wants to. But the real question is: Is this a hole they really want closed? Or is this one of the intentional leaks in the wall?”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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