So you were asking for it – here goes. I am back into posting mode, don’t know how often I will be able to post but anyway there are certain things I feel I have to share.
Nothing makes me laugh more than seeing the process of learning in some whitehats and how slow it goes. However, whitehats still do learn new tricks and blackhats should not slow down their learning process either.
This is really old news for those who somehow happen not to know – it has been made public almost 1 1/2 years ago and even if somebody happens not to read Threadwatch (gasp!), Quadszilla has been talking about this trick ad nauseam afterwards so even the blind have seen it and even the deaf have heard it. So funny when whitehats are making big news out of it 🙂
What’s a bit troubling there is the ethical question of people getting outed – sure the spammer was not careful enough and got caught but there are precautions to be taken. I believe (and a lot of experienced people will agree with me) it’s really dumb to use brute force spam like that to link directly to your MFA sites – let’s just hope this poor dude had more than one AdSense account. Now then, don’t I just love it how affiliate networks like CJ let you encode your aff id!
Now then, I don’t believe blog comment/trackback spam is anywhere as effective any more as it used to be – so was it worth the effort and all the exposure that followed? And blog spammers, quick, take note: that blog mentioned in the post is now to be filtered out of your spamming list! Dohh – haven’t I been talking for ages about filtering the blog lists to spam? Also, mass stuff only works when done with brains – I’ve been moderating trackback and comment spam on my own blog here where the same person hits several posts over a couple hours – if you don’t get through once do you think more attempts cut it? Sooo lame… Yawn.
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