The Lovely Taste of Spam
February 7, 2009 by tsims
Ah Spam… wonderful meat-steak like spam.
This past week has been quite the technological shakedown. Last weekend our blog was taken down by some stealthy hacking and this week our forum has been getting attacked by the spam bots. Luckily we keep back-ups, so we usually get back on our feet quickly after these things. They are actually good reminders that we either need to do some updates or look into increasing our security measures. It also reminds me to be diligent in my personal life. For instance, having a pro-active “what if I were victim of identity theft” plan. Do you have one? If not, this site has some pretty good tips.
We’ve never had much of a problem with spam on our phpbb3, but the spam bots must have finally cracked their visual verification measures because they have been bustin’ through the flood gates. We have pruned all the users that were added since Feb 3 because we couldn’t tell what was spammy and what was really. If you were a legit new member we apologize. We’ve implemented some new security, so come on back and register again.
What the hell does spam taste like anyway? I’ve never eaten it, but I imagine it is a close cousin to bologna.
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