Comments on: Bad Electronic Karma

By: Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » On Childhood and Citizenship

Robert Sharp » Blog Archive » On Childhood and Citizenship — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:02:58 +0000

[...] I’m thoroughly enjoying my think-tankery, although its one of the reasons (along with the theft) why I’ve not been as regular with my movements [...]

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:07:41 +0000

I’d love to think that out of all the WordPress installations out there, someone turned their time an attention to mine. But I’m pretty sure it was some kind of crawler.

By: Alastair Mucklow

Alastair Mucklow — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:26:00 +0000

Hard lines.

Do you reckon this was a targeted attack or some blanket crawler-type virus that automatically exploited a loophole? And was it a loophole in Wordpress specifically?

Was reading this the other day:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/three-tips-to-protect-your-wordpress-installation/

By: Clarice

Clarice — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:17:55 +0000

He means the image of the torn brown paper that used to be at the top of the page, with “robert sharp” in red writing. I look forward to its return, but personally, I did prefer the version before, with the hand-writing. Perhaps this could be an opportunity to re-instate it, Rob?

By: Grannie Rose

Grannie Rose — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:51:56 +0000

Thanks for this Rob. Now I understand.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:28:24 +0000

Basically, a “hacker” (malign computer programmer) managed to gain access to some of the computer files he (and it is usually a ‘he’) should not have been able to see. He then modified the code of my blog slightly. This allowed a “spammer” (unprincipled rogue advertiser of sex-aids and steriods) to use my site for his own ends. First, hyperlinks to online stores were hidden in my code, meaning that his Google ranking increased. Second, he made it appear as if the online stores were a part of robertsharp.co.uk. Not good.

“Denial of Service” means that the website (in this case, Chicken Yoghurt) is constantly asked for information, at a rate that it cannot keep up with. And litigation is, well, litigation.

Kubrick is simply the name given to the visual design you see before you. No torn paper here.

By: Grannie Rose

Grannie Rose — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:09:34 +0000

This may be interesting but could you write it in crystal mark English for those of us who are electronically challenged even if I am in a minority of one. Thanks in anticipation.