LoLo’s safe for work blog about Internet scams, deceptive marketing, spam, spyware, adware, and other asshatery.
7
Mar
Remember when HotOrNot.com left their site wide open to attacks and I schooled them on it? I just came across a site with similar security issues. I’m not going to post the site in question just yet though. It’s a huge financial site that could really be hurt if they were attacked so I’m just […]
25
Feb
Another good idea is proving to be problematic when put into action on MySpace. They have an image filtering solution in place which (in theory) converts TOS violating images into a little image which simply has the text “Terms of Service Violation” on it. It does so by checking urls within image tags against a […]
21
Feb
…yet their blog entry about this missed some key points. And, it’s odd that they were reluctant to post all the information on their findings: full urls, search strings used to get those numbers, the “certain social networking site” in question when they were clearly writing about MySpace, etc. Such cloak and dagger stuff isn’t […]
6
Feb
I’m insanely ill at the moment so excuse any typos and whatnot. Here’s the skinny…
1. I booked a round-trip flight with US Airways to spend my birthday with the girlfriend.
2. On Saturday morning (Feb 2) I woke up feeling like absolute shit. Body aches, chills, and a fever which broke 104 at one point. […]
1
Feb
Sometimes when I’m alone, I Google myself. I have no shame. :P
I’ve seen duplicates in the SERPs before, but a search this morning left me scratching my head with a dumb look on my face. Results number 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 57 are all the same for the term “ghettowebmaster” at the moment:
WTF?