Well as soon as you lock the doors they come in a window. This morning I woke up to over 100 spam trackbacks that where very nasty. Some of you may have seen them in our trackback tracker on the main page. I really love to give credit to those sites that quote us but I cannot risk having them on the main page. They are getting smarter as they are spoofing IP's so it's not like I can put in a IP block. So those of you using Movable Type Version 3 the backdoor is wide open.
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Comments (2)
Why not support Pingback instead? You wouldn't have the crapflood/spam problems and you'd get all the benefits of Trackback.
Posted by Matt![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.geeknewscentral.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 2, 2004 6:44 PM
Posted on July 2, 2004 18:44
You sure about that, Matt? Sure enough to want to dare me to Pingback spam you? Remember, a page only needs to link to you at the second that you check the ping, and only for you checking (got PHP using a fake browser UA string?). Not at all difficult to have a page show Safari, Opera, Moz, and PHP a weblog post, and show IE and Googlebot extra-sick pr0n.
Posted by Phil Ringnalda![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.geeknewscentral.com/nav-commenters.gif)
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July 3, 2004 12:58 AM
Posted on July 3, 2004 00:58