2 hours ago, I logged on to YouTube in order to upload a new video. The video was quite boring, but I just felt that I had to upload it to YouTube. That’s when a strange message appeared, telling me that YouTube was hacked! I could not believe my eyes for a while, so I hit up Google and started searching.
According to a few blog posts I’ve read, a team of highly-skilled Chinese hackers are the ones responsible for this event. I kept on reading, and to my surprise, everything I was reading was consistent with what I had earlier read. Everyone, not just me, got that strange message. Some people even saved the whole webpage as a file on their computer in order for them to upload it again. I managed to download a picture, showing what YouTube looked like when it had been hacked.
Some of us got the picture above saying that YouTube had been hacked, while others got an error message that looked like this:
Http/1.1 Service Unavailable
I got the picture, not the text above… and to my surprise, YouTube had not been hacked. It was just a joke. Way to go, YouTube! You totally had me.
A part of me knew that YouTube hadn’t been hacked, I swear! One thing that made me realize that YouTube had not been hacked was that you were able to watch videos that were embedded. You could visit a random website and watch a video that was embedded over there. Visiting the website would result in an error though.
Anyhow, YouTube is working perfect now… and you should not be worried about what’s happening. I just wanted to tell you what had happened. Stay tuned!
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