DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    From a technical point of view, the 403 page they gave Shoemoney was very similar to how many spam and anti-hacking systems work, such as Bad Behavior on Wordpress.

    When you block someone spamming or hacking you on a blog, do you point to your terms of service or comments policy?

    Eric and the team do deserve credit for taking the high road, but I don't believe hacking and vendettas should be rewarded, especially as Shoemoney used to be in the computer security field professionally.
  • Rob Hyndman · 2 years ago
    Exactly right, 'thew. The indignation-sphere needs to take a chill pill. The MBL guys strike me as the good guys.
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    I don't think they should be rewarded either, Andy, but it was obvious that Shoemoney was trying to point out a vulnerability -- you could argue that they should have thanked him, not blocked him.
  • AndyBeard · 2 years ago
    Well the next stage of this will be people hiring out-sourced programmers to hack open-source platforms and outing XSS exploits so fast, including scripts to use the the vulnerabilities.

    It isn't normal for computer security specialists to release information about exploits and security holes before they can be fixed.

    As I have already written, services like Adsense are immune to people taking such action because there are financial incentives to keep in Googles good books, but Adsense isn't immune to abuse in similar ways to what Shoemoney is saying about MBL.
  • Peter · 2 years ago
    I know - lay off MyBlogLogFogDogSog already. They're just a tiny little startup and they're innocent in all this. I mean, they knew they had to do the right thing and they did it. It had nothing to do with public pressure, because that would mean that the tiny little startup called DogBlogLog caved to pressure from mere humans, and that is obviously not what happened here. The folks at MyDogBlog are a principled lot, dontchaknow, and this would never have been necessary were it not for those meddling kids.
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    Is that a hint of sarcasm I detect in your comment, Peter?
  • Jim Kukral · 2 years ago
    Exactly right. MBL did the right thing, and Shoe handled it well as well. I'm satisfied with how this turned out.

    Now, if only the Anna Nicole situation would go as easily... lol