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YouTube's Team Of Monkeys

Vincent Alzieu
Translator: Jack Sims
June 1, 2011 7:37 PM
You're flipping between YouTube's at 4h15 in the morning - nothing unusual about that - and then, as just happened to us, while you're sorting out the videos on your account, an error message appears:

"Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, show them this information: K7SC5rXGYYyU2sROt6[...]"

Here's the full version:

500 Internal Server Error

Sorry, something went wrong.

A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.

If you see them, show them this information:
K7SC5rXGYYyU2sROt6rHPwGTTx-QronZVayvVGLBs-Qwa2QfbuBOY8QUV2Pc
WAelWrN9I7RF0D23AnrwWM3uDYNdBZ2UBhiDiu0IF2FixAv5U376081Rw2-V
wx0_NcpvHQNN8rvYzWjZzVvqp1EoD2BNEM-FIvKNER4OlmAXxSPeUZK0oIEm
BpoLZBeSo8XR1x6rcNdZEEJkibMWrCg_lYn9eS5Ev7gEGJhIQbfM39EO_B8b
sjQn2CdairaBECDfMUgekLfXg2UVsmFdiqAknrP-usF7my18jbYkOFvoCYHX
HQVZf5t6zmnwivUkBEVOhDSz1ryYN52XybkUD4c6rRaOG9kUUgPMym7AV16-
EdbrWoqHVDyquEHmoMq7nQLO26n_a7MU2geLS7K_iR_DWha3dJsR6DGs82lP
3Q_zsfv6nIVMKKQ52KKta22IDLNFxxPTYj6b1_Wnc8ys1i9hwFhqd1AION_m
MCt-6neSSCyk_RNG3knNumI8Sx7PIvru1--KgkWec6ac4Z1KXy7ZmAaLtGbh
G1PY_VV55b6PeiLO69BxhCh7UYyA7yHvSsscJPbD6hVzsT1qLX2jdwVSXW-t
DFvbz6lgm_5Din76dC8dnzxszA12[...] 
(this continues for line after line)

What's going on? Has Google/YouTube been hacked like Sony? No, just some Google engineers with a sense of humour. The message appears during YouTube maintenance. Phew :)

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