[ISN] Mattel disavows Barbie Video Girl porn link

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:13:39 -0600 (CST)
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9202201/Mattel_disavows_Barbie_Video_Girl_porn_link

By Robert McMillan
IDG News Service
December 22, 2010

Somehow somebody put a link to a pornographic chat site on a Barbie.com 
page used to promote Barbie Video Girl, a version of the iconic doll 
that comes with an embedded video camera.

Sandra McDermott reported the problem to her local TV news station 
Tuesday after clicking on the link while trying to upload video on the 
Barbie.com Web site with her 10-year-old daughter.

Her daughter was uploading the video for a Barbie Video Girl movie 
contest, where kids enter videos they've shot using the toy.

When it looked like the computer might have frozen, McDermott clicked on 
a navigation link that should have taken her to 
www.barbie.com/videogirl/. Instead, she was taken to the very 
not-safe-for-work Camlive.com Web site, which offers "Live Sex Chat - 
Amateur Cams and Pornstars."

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