There are so many hacks out there now it’s mind-boggling. People love to just take an original and change it to something that they themselves might like. Kanye is always sampling other pieces of music (well hip-hop in general). The good artists are the ones that create their own style. Now we can take the remixing of things to the web. That’s right, there are guys out there from Greasemonkeyed.com that have scripts that allow you to change anything you want about existing web pages.
The ever-expanding World Wide Web is home to viruses, spammers, and con artists. What will these tools introduce into our virutal everyday lives? Now people can steal passwords from non-savvy web surfers by taking an Amazon.com page and chaning it around to put in your login information. Those un-suspecting surfers won’t be smart enough to check the IP of the page it’s being served on. However, not all these scripts are bad.
For example, you can now surf Boing Boing without all the racy pop up ads at work and they will block ads to enhance your page load times. There are new scripts being added everyday and there are over 600 scripts right now. The web was built to be hackable and just about everything can be found on the web. The dangerous thing is that, a tool like this can kill businesses and business models if the start-up is not careful. So it’s time to re-work those websites people.
