[wp-hackers] Comment Spam Stopped?

[Dennis Williamson]

The wiki seems to get spammed regularly, but earlier today I noticed that 
Mosquito got, if not spam, then some graffiti.

http://mosquito.wordpress.org/view.php?id=285 
(http://mosquito.wordpress.org/file_download.php?file_id=122&type=bug)

One of my test installs of WP got spammed pretty hard right away (so much 
for security by obscurity <ha!>) until I set it for authentication. 
Interestingly, my real one hasn't seen a bit.

Dennis (he who speaks too soon)

At Tuesday 11/16/2004 06:24 PM, you wrote:
> > That's pretty scary.
>
>The beauty of Open Source is that they can easily see what we're doing.  I 
>discovered today that some people were looking for StatTraq report pages 
>that were open for everyone to view and then intentionally linking into 
>pages on the site so that they would have their URL be linked to by 
>another site.  SEO apparently is a science: become a parasite to get 
>ranking if you've not got content worth being linked to.
>
>Randy Peterman
>Digital Research & Development
>www.randypeterman.com
>randy at randypeterman.com
>
>Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>>Randy Peterman wrote:
>>
>>>I did notice in my server logs that they're checking to see if Kitty's 
>>>comment files exist.  I imagine that if they do, they move onto someone 
>>>else's blog.
>>
>>That's pretty scary.
>
>
>
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