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Tuesday, February 1, 2005

No more trackbacks

After some shitbag tried spamming the site with nearly 150+ trackback requests, I’ve disabled the feature until I can find some better way of implementing them.

(Public Service Announcement ends)

2 Responses

  1. badly dubbed boy Says:
    February 1st, 2005 at 23:04:01

    Rename the cgi that enables the trackback, and all the references to said cgi. It’ll take you off their database for a while, for a start…

  2. Chris Says:
    February 2nd, 2005 at 15:12:40

    I could do that, but they could just re-grep the page or my RSS feed any time they liked for the word ‘trackback’ and dig out the new location of the trackback script.

    This was quite an effective and well-built attack, actually, it was distributed over 25 or so machines (thus bypassing the “No trackbacks from the same IP address for at least 15 minutes” rule I’d written in), from IPs that translated to addresses in the US, Greece, Italy, India, Saudi Arabia - presumably all virus-infected desktop PCs of some sort.

    I might reinstate TBs, or redo them with admin-approval, but I may just ditch them altogether, this site only had less than a dozen before the spam outbreak.


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