Blogspot and Firefox snafu

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"escorts2.bl0gspot.com"

"escorts2.bl0gspot.com" 07/30/2004 03:23 AM

"http://playweb.bl0gspot.com/"

"http://playweb.bl0gspot.com/" 08/05/2004 08:39 AM

"www.hunting-for-bambi.bl0gspot.com"

"www.hunting-for-bambi.bl0gspot.com" 06/25/2004 08:26 PM

Blogspot is hurting America

Blogspot is hurting America 03/14/2005 05:37 PM

Blogspot is currently broken. While it always aimed to be the place to get a free weblog, it has been the subject of various exploits and gaming.

Case in point: yesterday I got a porn spam that slipped through since the from: line was set to my own email, and amid the garbage text was a URL on blogspot. This URL:
http://trampling-high-heels3169.blogspot.com/

If you go there and check it out, it pretty much as the exact same text as the spam, but the URL leads to the spammer's real target site.

A friend recently returned from a anti-spam conference and said someone gave a demo of a spamming tool. They showed how it grabbed a zillion email addresses from a database, started churning out the email while hopping from one free open proxy server to another, and one curious last step was to automatically create a new blogger account, create a new site on blogspot, and load the email text from the spam as an entry. The last step was to raise the search engine position for the spammer's site and message and was completely automated.

When folks are using a blog host for spam and it becomes a key feature of automated spamming tools, I think it's time to fix it.

How about adding a captcha at the very least, to thwart those doing automatic script-based spaming of blogspot?

"hurricane-karl-pictures.bl0gspot.com"

"hurricane-karl-pictures.bl0gspot.com" 09/23/2004 02:53 AM

"paris-hilton-video.bl0gspot.com"

"paris-hilton-video.bl0gspot.com" 12/07/2003 03:41 AM

paris-hilton-video.bl0gspot.com

paris-hilton-video.bl0gspot.com 12/06/2003 08:36 AM
launch of a blog

paris-hilton-video.blogspot.com
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Porn Sites Using Blogspot To Game Google

Porn Sites Using Blogspot To Game Google 08/03/2004 12:32 PM
I think the only thing that's really all that noteworthy about this story is that it didn't happen sooner. In fact, it probably did happen sooner, but the press is just catching on. For quite some time now, people have realized that blogs tend to get higher Page Rank in Google due to their frequently updated nature, and tendency for cross-linking, so a group of porn sites have gotten together and are using bogus Blogspot blogs to boost the Page Rank of their own porn sites. Of course, as the article points out, this will now get to be much more popular, search engines will adjust and it will become useless again.

03:10
paris-hilton-video-tape.bl0gspot.com/

03:10
paris-hilton-video-tape.bl0gspot.com/ 01/04/2004 06:13 AM

paris-hilton-video-tape.blogspot.com
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Create a posting loop with gmail and
Blogspot

Create a posting loop with gmail and
Blogspot 03/28/2005 07:32 PM
Cory Doctorow: Pablo set up a Blogspot blog using Google, and a gmail account, likewise. Then he set his gmail account to forward to his blog's post-via-email address and his blog to send update alerts to his gmail account. The resulting loop resulting in his post being run 400 times in one day before his gmail account started to bounce the notifications. Link (Thanks, Pablo!)

bl0gdex - link diffusion -
amandadoerty.bl0gspot.com

bl0gdex - link diffusion -
amandadoerty.bl0gspot.com 04/18/2004 04:23 AM
blogdex - link diffusion - amandadoerty.blogspot.com

blogdex.net/track.asp?id=8526855&action=re cent&s=50
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Not Licensing The Original Mac: SNAFU Or
No?

Not Licensing The Original Mac: SNAFU Or
No? 08/09/2004 04:53 PM

GoDaddy sorry for anonymity snafu

GoDaddy sorry for anonymity snafu 11/18/2003 07:54 PM
Webcaster Alliance website back on the air

Notes and Tips: AppleCare Snafu

Notes and Tips: AppleCare Snafu 05/12/2004 09:54 AM
Some AppleCare disc problems apparently originate in the warehouse.

Weather Service Equipment Snafu

Weather Service Equipment Snafu 12/30/2003 06:10 AM
The National Weather Service buys faulty storm-detection equipment, then pays the same contractor to replace it. A whistleblower who tries to call attention to the double payment is blamed for the problems.

Notes and Tips: SuperDrive Snafu

Notes and Tips: SuperDrive Snafu 06/02/2004 10:32 AM
Is Apple delivering 2x SuperDrives to customers who bought 4x drives?

MCI UK settles three-year-old billing
snafu

MCI UK settles three-year-old billing
snafu 03/22/2005 05:08 PM
Finally...

Potential partner penalised for Telstra
snafu

Potential partner penalised for Telstra
snafu 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 0:24AM ET

Notes and Tips: iBook AppleCare Snafu

Notes and Tips: iBook AppleCare Snafu 05/08/2004 10:22 AM
AppleCare discs shipped with the new iBooks are apparently dysfunctional for startup repair.

Security Snafu Shuts Airport (Reuters)

Security Snafu Shuts Airport (Reuters) 12/30/2003 09:46 AM
Reuters - Security officials shut down part of San Antonio International Airport after traces of a cleaning solution on a piece of luggage were mistaken for the explosive TNT.

California sues Diebold over e-voting
snafu

California sues Diebold over e-voting
snafu 09/08/2004 05:07 AM
Brief Demands new President, new Governor...

Notes and Tips: Apple Scheduling Snafu

Notes and Tips: Apple Scheduling Snafu 07/26/2004 10:56 AM
Apple's "genius" scheduling system sounds a bit *too* automated....

MS 'Switcher' snafu makes '101 Dumbest'
list

MS 'Switcher' snafu makes '101 Dumbest'
list 03/19/2003 10:26 PM

"Clip of that George Bush speech snafu
everyone is talking about"

"Clip of that George Bush speech snafu
everyone is talking about" 08/09/2004 02:38 PM

Microsoft ends silence on hotmail domain
SNAFU

Microsoft ends silence on hotmail domain
SNAFU 11/07/2003 07:39 AM
Now sweet, but short

Database snafu puts US Senator on terror
watch list

Database snafu puts US Senator on terror
watch list 08/19/2004 05:18 PM
Good thing he wasn't wearing a turban

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million

Spread Firefox Download Counter
Relaunched, Firefox Downloads Top 44
Million 04/11/2005 11:59 PM

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up

Blake Ross on Firefox Developer
Recruitment and Why Firefox Will Never
Grow Up 02/01/2005 10:05 PM

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox

The History of Mozilla Firefox: From
Phoenix, to Firebird, to Firefox 03/31/2005 07:27 AM

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox!

adbar for Firefox: Opera's least popular
feature comes to Firefox! 08/18/2004 06:48 AM
adbar for firefox .. Adbar

squarefree.com/extensions/adbar
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Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox

Mozilla Firefox Reaches 1.0PR, Still
Named Firefox 09/14/2004 02:50 PM

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch

Firefox 1.0 Preview Release and
Thunderbird 0.8 Released - Mozilla
Foundation Adds New Features to Firefox
and Thunderbird as New Apps Near 1.0
Launch 09/14/2004 03:22 AM
The Mozilla Foundation today released the Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 email client. Mozilla Firefox 1.0 Preview Release is an innovative, secure, lightning fast web browser that is rapidly gaining global market share. Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 is the Mozilla Foundation's next generation email client. These releases bring Firefox and Thunderbird one step closer to their much anticipated 1.0 releases, scheduled for later this fall. [PRWEB Sep 14, 2004]

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR

FirefoxIE - Test IE Compatibility Inside
Firefox, www.firefoxie.net Fully
Equipped and Ready for Firefox 1.0PR 09/17/2004 08:22 AM
FF/IE Compatible Web Pages - There is a new development in the web design world, web pages that can be viewed equally in Firefox or Internet Explorer. [PRWEB Sep 17, 2004]

A New Look For Firefox

A New Look For Firefox 06/06/2004 09:31 AM

Firefox v0.9

Firefox v0.9 06/05/2004 04:09 AM

Firefox 1.0PR: a first look

Firefox 1.0PR: a first look 09/16/2004 02:58 PM
ZDNet UK Sep 16 2004 6:41PM GMT

Firefox 0.9.1

Firefox 0.9.1 08/15/2004 01:25 PM

getfirefox.com
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Firefox 1.0 is out

Firefox 1.0 is out 12/19/2004 03:43 PM
It's beautiful and rich on features and support for all the fancy new CSS, Javascript and DHTML toys. If only it was a bit more Mac like I'd change my default browser from Safari. Until then it's great to have around for those rare times when Safari doesn't work. If you don't use a Mac, why are you still reading here? Go download it already!...

Firefox 1.0 is here!

Firefox 1.0 is here! 12/17/2004 06:41 PM

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