"rapidshare"?

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"rapidshare"?

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What's with the "rapidshare" link at the bottom of the page? Is that supposed to be there?
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It looks fishy to me. A search on Google returned results related to warez and pirated movie downloads. I'm not going to click it.

Where are those admins...

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I've brought it to the attention of the admins. I suspect an exploit in our current phpbb software.
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An excellent observation, my dear Watson.
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Fixed
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You guys happen to know how it was done? ^^
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You guys happen to know how it was done? ^^
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The template file was edited. Likely through a phpBB exploit.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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It really does amaze me sometimes what people will do and how they do it. I know i wouldn't have looked down the very bottom for link like that.
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