My friend Xeni made a post about Burger King's Subservient Chicken promo website where you can tell a dude in a Chicken suit what to do. "touch your toes" "moonwalk" "play air guitar" "die" - that kind of thing. Weird, yes but not as weird as this next bit. Turns out it's just a collection of flash videos that are triggered by keywords. Intrigued by the concept, hacker NEMESIS started backwards engineering the API and came up with a list of what those keywords are and it looks like someone over there was holding the pickle in more ways than one. "masturbate" "suck" "show your tits" "cock" "bonghit" "take your pants off" "pussy" "vegan" (yes, vegan WTF??) etc can all be found in the code. So of course, Xeni blogged that too and included, for your reading pleasure a master list of the keywords (here's a mirror of the list). Take a look at that and search for something, you'll be surprised what they included, remember this is a Burger King promo aimed at making kids convince their parents to buy them fast food.

That's not all. Shortly after posting this she was contacted by someone claiming to be the designer who built the site, asking her to take down the list. She says:

"He's asking us to take down the copied list, because it kills the magic of the ad campaign. For now, we're leaving it up -- it's available on the Burger King website for anyone who bothers to look at the source code...

Burger King obviously didn't intend for this list, which includes many obscenities, to be widely viewed -- but they built the website carelessly. The list of commands is publicly accessible for anyone who knows enough about how websites work to "ask" the webserver for it.

They wrote it, they left it someplace where the public could find it, and now they are going to have to deal with the consequences of those actions. I encourage everyone reading this to copy it, post it and spread it around to anyone and everyone you can, then sit back and watch the shit hit the fan. Enjoy!

( I also blogged this on suicide girls and newgrounds - go see what people are saying there.)