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October 13, 2003
Lolita, preteen
Lolita, preteen: Spam in blog comments reached new heights this weekend... I heard of several sites that got "hundreds" of blog entries spammed with porn ads under the names "lolita" and "preteen". In the Flash community Sam Wan and Michael Gunn both got hit hard... some of the political blogs have closed down comments and are mobilizing to block further attacks. For Movable Type a lot of the attention seems to be around Jay Allen's plugin, and after a bit of forum debate there's an entry at SixApart today on the subject. (Two weeks ago I removed comment entry forms from old pages, but the addresses are still exposed... I'm getting much less new spam, but am still having to remove a few comments a day here, and I'm probably vulnerable to an automated attack too.)
Posted by John Dowdell at October 13, 2003 5:15 PM
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