Lidl Recalls Paw Patrol Snacks After Website on Packaging Displayed Porn (techcrunch.com) 59
Supermarket giant Lidl has issued a recall of Paw Patrol snacks after the website listed on the products' packaging began displaying explicit content unsuitable for children. From a report: Lidl, which operates more than 12,000 stores globally, is urging shoppers in the United Kingdom to return the snacks for a full refund. Affected products include Paw Patrol Yummy Bakes and Paw Patrol Mini Biscotti, snacks recommended for children aged two and above. Lidl's recall notice dated August 22 warns that the product's packaging contains a web address that has been "compromised" to display content "not suitable for child consumption."
How long? (Score:3)
How long will it take for some joker to reply "Link pls?"
Re:How long? (Score:4, Insightful)
Interesting way to be the first one!
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3)
Not going to happen.
Re: (Score:1)
HTH.
Re: (Score:2)
That's an AliYun "this site is temporarily unavailable" page.
Re:How long? (Score:4, Funny)
The Slashdot effect still lives!
Re: (Score:2)
"The news page linked to in the original post contains all the info that said joker might care to know..."
You actually read that?
You must be new here, welcome.
Re: (Score:1)
Links or it still happened!
those 1's are looking hard and those 0's are wet! (Score:1)
Re: those 1's are looking hard and those 0's are w (Score:2)
I'm sorry, but... (Score:1)
Re: (Score:3)
Re: (Score:2)
It is bad enough with software companies where any documentation outside of their core documentation takes you to dead links.
Re:I'm sorry, but... (Score:5, Informative)
Lidl just sells it. Appy Kids Co was a subsidiary of Appy Food and Drinks. The company and subsidiary are both no more. The domain expired because there is no company to pay for it.
I guess distributors still had packages in warehouses.
Re: (Score:2)
Same old stuff happen way back then on phone. (Score:2)
The same thing happened decages ago in France: Children called the Santa Claus telephone number in some 6 month old recorded children show, and they got p*rn phone...
What (likely) happened here is not uncommon (Score:2)
DNS entry is still valid, either because the lease is still running or because nobody re-registered it and thus the cache value never got overwritten, and it points to an IP address that has been reused for something more fun oriented.
In this case it's likely unintentional and without direct harm. But be careful what you link to and check your links regularly, especially if you're a company with a lot of customers. It's very juicy if you are, say, a large bank and you link in one of your most interesting pr
Shock! Horror! (Score:2, Funny)
Children might see pictures of breasts
Re:Shock! Horror! (Score:5, Informative)
HAHA! You sweet summer child.
You must not have been on the Internet long.
One day, you will discover the horrors that lie behind Rule 34.
If breasts are the first thing you think of when you read the word "porn" in an article, then you're much too naive to comment on such things.
Re: (Score:2)
I wonder if the site in question adhered to Rule 34...
Re: (Score:2)
HAHA! You sweet summer child. You must not have been on the Internet long. One day, you will discover the horrors that lie behind Rule 34.
If breasts are the first thing you think of when you read the word "porn" in an article, then you're much too naive to comment on such things.
A porn site with the word "kids" in the name seems likely to contain the kinds of horrors that cause severe psychological harm even to adults that go to the site.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
The frozen chicken aisle is bad enough.
Re: (Score:2)
The frozen chicken aisle is bad enough.
Yeah...all of those naked and crispy legs and thighs and nuggets just laying there...freezing.
Re: (Score:1)
Frozen breasts? That's Mitch McConnell at the beach.
Re: (Score:2)
Far worse than that...... This is not the doggie style you're looking for...
Re: (Score:2)
Actually it is not just breasts, which are perfectly fine to gaze at, it's animated sex scenes, although in small button-like format. But penises going into vaginas etc are visible, and clicking leads to porn sites so, yeah, I would not call it child friendly.
Re: (Score:2)
Still better than seeing a picture of crap Nestle promotes for feeding to babies, or victims of a certain special operation that Nestle funds.
Not the story we deserved (Score:2)
Not Porn but ... (Score:2)
Sorry not sorry.
Why recall the dog food? (Score:2)
Re: (Score:3)
"Can't the hacked website just be shut down?"
You seem to be assuming that the original machines were hacked. Since the company running them went out of business, they're probably long gone. Details weren't given, but how the site was "hacked" was almost certainly that somebody picked up the DNS name when it became available (because the now-gone owner stopped paying for it) and pointed it at their own porn server. Nobody who wants to stop this has any access to that server.
Re: (Score:2)
On what basis do you assert that the product itself isn't harmful?
Sounds like a good intro to Flash (Score:2)
Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol, we'll be there on the double! No hack to big, no DDOS to small, Paw Patrol, is on a roll!
better explanation (Score:5, Informative)
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09... [techcrunch.com]
has more detail
Re: (Score:2)
So the recall was to avoid the ads. That sounds like a good reason.
Re: (Score:2)
I don't think this is an HTTPS issue. It's an expired domain name. Which anyone is free to purchase and point to the server of their choice. Acquire the appropriate SSL certificate, load the porn and Bob's your uncle. The HTTP part is working per spec. That is in fact the website to which the URL points.
The problem here is that the manufacturer allowed their registration of the domain to lapse.
Re: (Score:3)
He's not claiming that HTTPS caused this problem, but is claiming that if websites (particularly this one) were generally HTTP, then it would allow content filters to detect the bad stuff and filter it out.
Re: (Score:2)
According to the TechCrunch link above, the problem is the ads hosted on the "web site for sale" page.
School Library (Score:1)
Reminds me slightly of the Fuddruckers incident (Score:2)
When Fuddruckers directly linked to another person's content...they retaliated by redirecting that traffic to something decidedly less kid friendly:
https://developers.slashdot.or... [slashdot.org]
At least ... (Score:2)
I suppose it could've been "worse" (Score:1)
The new site owners could've redirected the link to 'Paw Patrol' Writers Defend Episode Where German Shepherd Cop Shoots Unarmed Black Lab 17 Times In Back [theonion.com] (Aug. 2018 "news" article).
Nothing was hacked, just business as usual (Score:1)
and will they be dumped into south sudan or other (Score:2)
and will they be dumped into south Sudan or other places that can need the food?
Shows how much I know (Score:2)
I saw "Paw Patrol" and assumed these were treats for dogs! I haven't been exposed to kids shows for some time.
Now, if someone drops a "Blues Clues" reference... that I'll get.
Lidl Recalls (Score:2)
Sharpie (Score:2)
Sharpie over the URL or QR code and sell it again?
Re: (Score:2)
Sharpie over the URL or QR code and sell it again?
Seriously, I can't believe I had to scroll this far for this comment. There isn't any need to recall a snack that is still otherwise edible but has a link that leads to porn on the packaging. That's a job for permanent markers.
So... (Score:2)