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+# news_script
+This is one of the first PHP scripts I had ever developed. I believe I was around 14 years old.
+I'm really just putting it here for my own historical purposes.
+
+I think it required register_globals, and after looking it over the authentication
+system; it had about as many holes as swiss cheese.