Monday, 23 July 2007

Save yourself $100~ a year at experts-exchange in two easy steps.

Let's take a quick look at a typical expert exchange .com page:








So It looks like they don't want you to see the answers unless you pay them... surely there must be a way around that? (a legal way even?), well thats take a look at that text, it seems to be being obscured some how, maybe an image with a checkerboard pattern white vs transparent ... CORRECT!

So step 1) is, block 'http://css.experts-exchange.com/xp/images/answerOverlay.png' Either using adblock or something similar.

So now lets reload as see what we get...








(the screenshot above will look slight different to your view, because I chose to block all images, its's easier)

Now that may look like random letters to the un-trained eye, but to the seasoned geek that code can be cracked in a nano-second.... it's rot13!

Step 2) copy and paste and then rot13! (just use rot13.com, you might need to disable java-script to allow you to copy and paste)

Simple.

This one goes out to the geniuses at experts-exchange for charging for knowledge that should be free and then doing a crap job at keeping it hidden.

Hope this helps everyone out.

- Xen