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Cross-Site Request Forgery

Your server interprets the request as Vic writing a post, and creates a new item on his timeline. This is not the action that Vic intended, but he may not quite have noticed what just occurred.

www.email.com
Subject:
Has science gone too far?
To:
Vic
Researchers have taught this horse how to do karate!
Some horses
What if it starts teaching the other horses karate?
A future hacking victim

Your server interprets the request as Vic writing a post, and creates a new item on his timeline. This is not the action that Vic intended, but he may not quite have noticed what just occurred.

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