In the evening hours of Election Day,Japan stalwart citizens discovered a nefarious "hack" in Donald Trump's campaign website.
Through simply editing the URL that directed to the press release archive, users could make the header say whatever random, clever or combative words they wanted.
SEE ALSO: A ridiculous live blog for a ridiculous electionAll a curious person had to do was put the desired text at the end of the URL separated with "%20".
For example, "https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/archive/trump%20is%20bad%20at%20internet" would turn into this:
The glitch is no longer effective (sad, I know). The campaign that so staunchly warned against the dangers of "cyber" ended the fun. However, word of it spread very quickly and many had a blast passing time before the next barely informative CNN Key Race Alert.
People wanted to see many different things on Trump's website.
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Then there was just the classic poop emoji.
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Or you could, if you were quick enough to exploit it, give yourself some self care during this stressful day.
[H/T Slate]
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