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When People Steal Your Work
So I got an email today from an awesome reader of the blog. Just read… Hi guys, just thought I would let you know about this. I recently saw someone placing my own site design in their personal portfolio as something they made and in the comments section of my blog entry on the subject [...]
The World Is Full of Spammers: Think Ahead
As a software developer I’m constantly challenged with avoiding annoying spammers. I easily spend 30% of my time working against people that serve no purpose but to bother me. The challenge isn’t simply blocking bots and spammers on development projects, it’s balancing the blockage with the loss of real users. A good test case, the [...]
Pligg Hits A Critical Security Vulnerability
Recently, the “digg clone” CMS Pligg was informed of a security attack that can compromise the entire management system by a hacker. It’s only a matter of time before a hacker exploits the vulnerability because this is an open sourced project and anyone can see the code changes, thus a hacker with some coding knowledge [...]