seriously I can’t think of a web property that can take any more bad press ..
First you had the Shoemoney been banned because of an exploit he found, then we asked ourselves why are they tracking Adsense Clicks, Now we have this http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/mblshouldnotallowthis/
Ok hat tips :
googletutor for point it out to me
Jensense for the mybloglog tracking clicks
Shoemoney and his posts on Mybloglog
Google Because they need help
DaveN
edit thanks to cutts post 
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12th March 2007 @ 16:36
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Interesting.
13th March 2007 @ 12:18
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So Matt Cutts wisely points out that mybloglog could avoid this crud by using more thorough forms of authentication like yahoo and google etc - ie the ‘placethisrandomstring.html in your root directory’ style authentication.
I guess the absence of such forms of authentication makes it easier from a user perspective.. I mean, how many times have you used a CMS that fails to return a 404 for unknown url’s - loads!. But it SURELY can be easier than that…
Perhaps something like ‘createThisRandomEmailAddress@BlogYouWantToClaim.com and click on the url we send to it’ would be heaps easier and cut out loads of the rubbish - although I wonder whether some of the ‘free blogs’ allow this either..
Perhaps even ‘putThisRandomStringAtEndOfRecentPostOnYourBlog’ would suffice.
thatsMyTwoCentForToday-OverAndOut.
Doc
utheguru.com14th March 2007 @ 02:31
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well its going to have to take some more bad press after you read what i found:
http://www.mywebseo.com/mbl_email_exploit/16th March 2007 @ 16:16
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Interesting link to Shoe’s site http://www.shoemoney.com/?s=mybloglog, which just happens to be coincide with Danny’s recent post on getting search results listed. http://searchengineland.com/070312-104201.php
I’m not sure if he’s handling the search request through robots.txt or anything (he probably is), I just thought it funny that I read Danny’s post than hit your post and BOOM there was an example.