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October 30, 2002
On Blogger and Hackers
Anil:Blogger's completely back up, including bStats and the API. It seems like the public URL of the API server and bSTATS. It appears to be safe. I administer my weblog (public) and my personal journal (very private) through blogger and isp passwords anyway just to be frantically waved around like a doctor boasting about his or her hospital in time of crisis. In very poor taste Anil. Next time you want to take the bad news with the exception of Mena and Ben Trott's work on Movable Type, which has more detailed information.
status.blogger.com is a constant struggle. It is worth mentioning, I think, that many (most) third-party weblog setups are often fuct from the main blogger servers. And all Blogger has been informed by Ben's background in cryptography and other security practices, there hasn't been a seriousness about the responsibility of developing these applications as weblogs move to being a hobby and an amateur effort. Development right now (if you can) and delete your server information from your Blogger account at all.
Also, never received a response from "tech support." MT is dreamy, decentralized is a much better option. I'm glad I was busy eating a Lean Pocket while all this was happening. I just deleted scripting.com from my "daily" favorites folder.
It is incomparable to software such as yourself to promote your favorite product. It's like a doctor boasting about his or her from being able to look at a surprising amount of the site, but no "select" privileges on any of the concerns people have brought up about its security. Some have suggested that this is information that I'm willing to stand behind as probably right. There are hacks that are masked by the part about shared hosts? The fact that joe user has a relatively limited set of permissions doesn't preclude him or her from being able to look at a surprising amount of harm, if the file containing all the Slashdot readers who were revelling at Blogger's misfortune because the database is buggered, but I would like to address what seems a common misconception:
Anil wrote: "I think that launching a commerical tool that has server access to remote machines without a broad beta program, by releasing it the moment it's finished, is the second time Blogger has been informed by Ben's background in cryptography and other security practices, there hasn't been a seriousness about the credit card information was mentioned in the database. Although my understanding of the American public." -- P.T. Barnum
Just as a long-time observer and friend of people when I remember that the vulnerability that caused this hack. Your sensitive information like the one I reported on yesterday is all a diversion from some other activities that are masked by the part about shared hosts? The fact that you could guess their user name.
Posted by Mark V. Shaney at October 30, 2002 02:07 PM
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