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by Prometheus 6
November 17, 2003 - 11:10am.
on Tech

I guess Tech is the appropriate category, though Random Rant was a contender.

Blogrolling.com was hacked. I wouldn't have noticed right away, but SPN at http://Soulphoto.net hipped me to it.

Unfortunately, I had been too lazy to move my Blogrolling.com links to a template module like the other guys. And there was a whole bag of them, so it's going to take a while to reconstruct. If you have an RSS feed or a link I can pick up via the TTLB Ecosystem or Technorati I'll definitely find you.

I was strongly considering setting up a links blog and using that to handle my blogroll. This may accelerate that, though I have to weigh it against the other half completed projects I have going.

At any rate, it'll be a couple of days before I deal with this properly…by which I mean setting up a "disaster recovery" procedure for P6.

UPDATE: The list is back. However, you'll note (or not...) the statement about finding another blogrollong method remains.

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Submitted by Al-Muhajabah (not verified) on November 17, 2003 - 12:51pm.

Considering how many people using blogrolling.com, the people who run it have an awful lot of motivation to fix the problem.When I first signed up with Blogrolling, it allowed me to create multiple blogrolls. Then recently, they cut off access to all but one of the blogrolls. I switched over to using a template module for one of the ones I can no longer access, because I wanted to update it. I also saved the code for the other one I can no longer access. I guess it's time to set up a template module for that too.As for the third blogroll, the one that I could still access, that one I'll have to wait until the service comes back up.Disaster recovery plans are Very Good Things.

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Submitted by Stephen (not verified) on November 17, 2003 - 1:12pm.

Jason, at blogrolling said that it was a coding mistake to allow a user multiple free accounts. All of the others apparent;y still work, although editing them has now been suspended.That come from the "news" section at blogrolling.com.Regardless, I read several instances in the past few months were users had been hacked. Those users had their dbs reinstated fairly soon after the links were discovered to be changed.SPN

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Submitted by Al-Muhajabah (not verified) on November 18, 2003 - 2:23pm.

Yeah, that's what I had heard. At the time that I created them, there didn't appear to be any restriction against it, so I went ahead and did it.I've now switched both of them over to template modules. Of course, since I can't access those blogrolls, I also can't delete them from the system.

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