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Good bot article
21/04/2006, 09:47:10
Tagged Under: bots, security, spam, DDoS, phishing.
Good article on bots and bot-nets by Kelly Martin from Security Focus.
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Hotlinkers
16/01/2006, 11:20:34
Tagged Under: blog, security, geek, images.
Always fun to catch them out. Problem is trying to stop them can cripple not only your own server but also anyone who you want to share your content with who you're more than happy to let hotlink it. In a perfect world you'd have everyone take a copy of your image or whatever but it just isn't practical, especially when that media might change. I recently suffered this problem, and still do. I still do because I'm still deciding on what to do. I can see by my log that someone has hotlinked the "pod" image from the music list of the right side. The request comes from a forum which is locked off and requires you to actually fax to the owners a copy of this to be authorised to log in (which is pretty heavy really). As you may or may not know it's written in Turkish, shame I have a friend who lived there for years, no problems in knowing what it says. Aside that we have some clever bod on myspace who has a "friend" who decided to hotlink the "the rising dragon" music image. You'd think people would get a life, get some eyesight and realise that the copyright logo at the bottom means in lamer terms: "Don't steal my stuff thanks", alas no.
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