My governing website, of which this blog is one part, just crossed 550,000 hits. Wonder if this is a triggerpoint for certain crawly things on the interwebs.
If Will were around today, he’d not mind. He’d likely have some pithy and salty things to say besides.
I took my site’s tiny forum inactive until I get the time/urge to install a modification to help with security. Blasted bots were attempting multiple entries daily, with very few members or posts, so, nothing they’d really want or benefit from. (Their puppet-masters, that is.) And the bots all seem to be geared toward pills or pr0n or the like. I, however, want a wide audience to be able to enjoy a forum in peace. Spambots, though, are the bottom feeders of the web. I fervently wish the people who write their programs would do something productive, beneficial, and fun for people, instead of creating such needless wastes of time and energy and negativity, or outright bad things.
My sympathies. My own attempts at coding never tended toward hacking, good or ill. But I dislike those who only want to grab, steal, or force crud on others.
There are a few things you can do. Use a CAPTCHA; automatically trash first posts after three days waiting for your approval; have a friend in the Cyber Command; know how to use the xkill command.
Got SI CAPTCHA. It annoys anyone wanting to sign up. 🙁
And the much maligned spam filter does get the right posts lately: it’s stopped picking on Spence. 😉 But what is the Cyber Command and what is this xkill of which you speak?
Cyber Command has the UAVs that take out designated IP addresses. It’s all automatic from the initial domain lookup to the impact of the warhead in the middle of the perp’s keyboard.
Cyber Command is the military organisation that controls those UAVs that are used to take out spammers. From detection through localisation, launch, and finally the explosion of the warhead, it’s all automated.
xkill is the extended kill command: (from rec.funny)
When the command xkill is invoked with an username as argu-
ment, it attempts to locate the specified user on the local
host. If the user is logged on, the signal ECUTE (electro-
cute, 666) is sent to the user’s terminal. This will cause
the keyboard to electrocute the user. If the user is not
logged on, the appropriate line of the file /etc/passwd is
marked. The first time the user logs on the ECUTE signal is
sent to the terminal he is using.
When the command xkill is invoked with a remote username, in
the form user@host, a connection with the remote host is
attempted (see xkilld (8)), to send the ECUTE signal to the
user’s terminal.
Yikes! Awful!
Robot?
I get a lot of those.
AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHH !!!!
And the bot is still at it this morning. Box is stuffed with attempts.
My governing website, of which this blog is one part, just crossed 550,000 hits. Wonder if this is a triggerpoint for certain crawly things on the interwebs.
Out! Out! Damned bot! (with mumbled apologies to Wm. S.)
If Will were around today, he’d not mind. He’d likely have some pithy and salty things to say besides.
I took my site’s tiny forum inactive until I get the time/urge to install a modification to help with security. Blasted bots were attempting multiple entries daily, with very few members or posts, so, nothing they’d really want or benefit from. (Their puppet-masters, that is.) And the bots all seem to be geared toward pills or pr0n or the like. I, however, want a wide audience to be able to enjoy a forum in peace. Spambots, though, are the bottom feeders of the web. I fervently wish the people who write their programs would do something productive, beneficial, and fun for people, instead of creating such needless wastes of time and energy and negativity, or outright bad things.
My sympathies. My own attempts at coding never tended toward hacking, good or ill. But I dislike those who only want to grab, steal, or force crud on others.
There are a few things you can do. Use a CAPTCHA; automatically trash first posts after three days waiting for your approval; have a friend in the Cyber Command; know how to use the xkill command.
I had over 1000 on one of my blogs over the weekend. Tis the season.
Got SI CAPTCHA. It annoys anyone wanting to sign up. 🙁
And the much maligned spam filter does get the right posts lately: it’s stopped picking on Spence. 😉 But what is the Cyber Command and what is this xkill of which you speak?
Cyber Command has the UAVs that take out designated IP addresses. It’s all automatic from the initial domain lookup to the impact of the warhead in the middle of the perp’s keyboard.
xkill is the extended kill command. http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/92q1/userkill.html
Cyber Command is the military organisation that controls those UAVs that are used to take out spammers. From detection through localisation, launch, and finally the explosion of the warhead, it’s all automated.
xkill is the extended kill command: (from rec.funny)
When the command xkill is invoked with an username as argu-
ment, it attempts to locate the specified user on the local
host. If the user is logged on, the signal ECUTE (electro-
cute, 666) is sent to the user’s terminal. This will cause
the keyboard to electrocute the user. If the user is not
logged on, the appropriate line of the file /etc/passwd is
marked. The first time the user logs on the ECUTE signal is
sent to the terminal he is using.
When the command xkill is invoked with a remote username, in
the form user@host, a connection with the remote host is
attempted (see xkilld (8)), to send the ECUTE signal to the
user’s terminal.