comments and bug reports please

DaveN

you know that Google is hunting and killing sites…

do this search : Google

so you can see 2,800,000 blogs wp-content folder ( this is a standard googledork )

how hard would it be for Google to write a script where basically do this…

open folder : http://www.blogherald.com/wp-content/plugins/

fuzzy logic search for TLA_ which would return http://www.blogherald.com/wp-content/plugins/tla_44565.php

yep thats the TLA plugin … banned !

DaveN

In the Pwn2Own competition the the first attack breached the defenses of Mac OS X using a bug in the Safari browser and won £5000 as well as the MacBook Air that he compromised. hehehe

http://www.securityfocus.com/brief/711

DaveN

These are my 3 my Favourite messing with Digg tricks.. remember most diggers are stupid

1) The 301 redirect to another page.

Basically you 301 the page that’s been dugg to another page, with a Digg button, because most people Digg after they have left Digg and landed on your page

2) The wrong Digg button

basically you just replace the digg button on the landing page to another digg page. I have seen this method used very very well. you get your “5 cool things about firefox” on the front page of digg then on the landing page you put a digg button to you next upcoming article.

3) the on-exit

small bit of JS so when they leave the page it Digg’s it for you :)

DaveN

a nice little pagerank 3 website : I thought I had found a new adsense block …

You see the “From” and “Get a Quote” well guess what they are Not Ads buy google they a sold links !!

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as if you didn’t know ! lol

ok I want to try and show you the importance of back link .. My little German Buddy linked to me in German !.. Ya das ist gut

this was the text here used Dell beim spammen erwischt ( it means something like “Dell gets spammed” ), but check out google for the German term Dell beim spammen erwischt

Cool Hey !

DaveN

if you are like me and recently noticed that your Firefox was crashing all the time maybe you should read this ..

http://secunia.com/advisories/29526/

DaveN

hypothetical I repeat this post is hypotheatrical !

lets say that 12 months ago a group of Googlers and anonymous friends sat down to discuss how they could kill link selling and buying, without causing death and destruction to normal sites, Obviously if Google started killing sites for buying links, then the bad people would just buy links for the competition, of course Google are smart enough to think of that they aren’t just in this for the short term fix.

So lets pretend the real option was to build teams of Link detectives that just collected data but never actioned it, just collected..

Then lets say they set up accounts at TLA, Linkworth, TLB Digitalpoint etc etc, how quick could you collect the the data covertly without people ever knowing what was coming.. because they just collected data but never actioned it.

Ok so they have the data what’s next well they need to spread fear, so what if they just fire a warning shot, say cull Pagerank but nothing else, more to deter than hurt, But what if the community mocked this ! nobody likes been mocked so what if they cross reference that with data in Webmastercentral and analytics and just killed your money words. what if they where allowed to say … move you down 6 places per infraction would that stop the the linking selling and buying.. of cousre they would be monitoring the link buying activities so buying links for competitors could be discounted for say at least 6 months …

on recent trip to SES London a Webmaster asked me if I trusted a certain Googler.. he then went on to tell me that the same googler told HIM the spam team where using webmastercentral and analytics, I wasn’t sure so I could not confirm or deny..

how long before you feel the pain..
DaveN

All right. Where is the poison? The battle of wits has begun. It ends when you decide and we both drink, and find out who is right… and who is dead.

Thanks to the Hacker Webzine. 0×000000.com they posted Up a video presentation by Johnny Long

seriously check it out in your lunch hour … So funny and yet so TRUE ! Video here if you don’t know who Johnny Long is shame on you he did the google hacking database

DaveN

In the darker belly of the Internet world there are rumours that Phorm may replace ad’s by Google with it own ad’s… worried no of course you aren’t, after all Phorm is just the rebrand of 121media ( I think that was malware )

so what’s with the title of this post, well 70% or the UK internet users will have to opt out yes opt out, you see that Phorm as signed deals with BT, Talk Talk and Virgin, so now are you scared. if you thought that Zuckerberg’s Beacon was bad.. this is worse ..

well what could Phorm do

from the webwise site :

Advertising that’s relevant to your interests
Webwise assigns a unique, randomly-generated number in a cookie to a customer’s browser to preserve anonymity, then matches the categories of browsing activity with advertising. When there is a match the customer sees the more-relevant ad.

What if you where running adsense, they could just block that and replace it with a more relevant ad.

What if you where reading the FT and they mentioned Expedia and hotels in Paris, and phorm could add a link to lastminute if they wanted to or even a Banner ad.

What if the profile they built on you was leaked, I’m sure the UK are pretty good at not leaking Data ..

and what if when you searched Google you got Phorm ads and Not adwords, has and adwords advertiser that would piss me off ..

at the moment I can’t tell if the Webwise add on will deactivate the Phorm ads or not time will tell I guess.

btw BT just testing this on 10,000 people …

Bad peoples sites
http://www.phorm.com/
http://www.webwise.com/

related articles
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/06/internet.privacy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7280791.stm

DaveN