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Re: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

Jim Kukral — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 23:43:21 -0000

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

Re: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

Mathew — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 19:40:03 -0000

Is that a hint of sarcasm I detect in your comment, Peter?

Re: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

Peter — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:47:54 -0000

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.

Re: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

AndyBeard — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:59:21 -0000

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.

Re: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

Mathew — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:22:08 -0000

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.

Re: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

Rob Hyndman — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:40:52 -0000

Exactly right, 'thew. The indignation-sphere needs to take a chill pill. The MBL guys strike me as the good guys.

Re: Cleaning up the mess over at MyBlogLog

AndyBeard — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 13:04:23 -0000

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.