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The Password is 1234

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:33:30 GMT

Bruce Scheier: 2.5% of all passwords begin with 1234.

Randy: When people do studies like this, they often fail to point out that the passwords that begin with 1234 are often for low-risk domains. You know what my password is on my voice mail? It's 1234. Do you think that's my PIN number for my bank card? Obviously not.

Nofollow No Good?

Tue, 30 May 2006 14:47:55 GMT

Dylan F. Tweeney: The half-baked idea was that if everyone adopted nofollow, it would quickly make comment spam pointless. [cut] Comment spam? Thicker than ever. It’s had absolutely no effect on the volume of spam. That’s probably because comment spammers don’t give a crap, because the marginal cost of spamming is so low.

http://dylan.tweney.com/2006/05/26/googles-embarrassing-mistake/

Randy: This was all predicted from the beginning.

Search engine SPAM detector

Thu, 25 May 2006 03:15:25 GMT

This tool analyzes a web page, searching for characteristics that search engines could consider spam.

http://tool.motoricerca.info/spam-detector/

Blogspot Sucks AGAIN!

Sat, 20 May 2006 23:21:51 GMT

Another 100 blogspot splog referrers in the last 12 hours. I command any blogspot.com bloggers to move elsewhere, because I'm not ignoring you. You live in the midst of spam. Leave or remain ignored.

CAPTCHAs don't work already!

Wed, 17 May 2006 20:13:19 GMT

I think the constant, never ending splogging that is occuring at Google's blogspot hosting service is proof enough. I wish Google would just give up on CAPTCHAs and try something new. This is getting stupid.

MSN Spaces Trackback Spam

Wed, 03 May 2006 17:59:35 GMT

I just noticed today that my MSN Spaces blog is littered with trackback spam. The links are NOFOLLOW, so there's no Google Juice, but it sure muddies up the waters. It would be trivial for the MSN Spaces team to simply backcheck the links, that is, check that they actually referrer to the blog entry.