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June 23, 2003

Michael of beebo.org has discovered a useful bug in the NY Times website's "email this article" feature. If you know the URL of a story that has slipped into the archives, and is thereby normally only available for a fee, you can hack the "email this" URL with it to mail it to yourself (or others) for free. No doubt this loophole will close as soon as the NY Times admins hear about it via weblogs, and it's only useful if you know old URLs, but still, whaaah, eh?