Comments on: Blogrolling Hack Illustrates Need for Decentralization

By: Strangers on the Net » Blogrolling.com “defaced”

Strangers on the Net » Blogrolling.com “defaced” — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:13:56 +0000

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By: Rose, Birthday Flowers Admin

Rose, Birthday Flowers Admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2004 03:37:10 +0000

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By: The Queer Dot Net

The Queer Dot Net — Mon, 29 Dec 2003 17:24:59 +0000

Decentralized Blogrolling Script
Well, I’m sure most bloggers heard about the little incident with Blogrolling not too long ago. If you haven’t, that site has a bit of a timeline of what happened, but the gist of it was that a small(?) error…

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 05:39:24 +0000

Yeah, someone commented to me today that my links weren’t working and that there was one link all the way down. Now I know why. Lol.

By: One Fine Jay

One Fine Jay — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 02:46:46 +0000

Host your own roll
At wordpress.org’s devblog, this entry by Wordpress’s primary developer, Matt Mullenweg:

This isn’t meant to criticize the fine people behind blogrolling.com at all. Realistically, anyone can be hacked and most people have been at some p…

By: OF Jay

OF Jay — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 01:09:41 +0000

Matt, a short aside, Laura’s Blog is a personal blog run by herself and her husband. There are however, numerous “blogs” that spoof links as javascript redirects to porn sites. Those, on the other hand, are plain old terrible.

By: Chris Burkhardt

Chris Burkhardt — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:38:18 +0000

Many good points, Matt. Would it be hard to release the link-handling parts of WordPress as a separate stand-alone “blogroll” package which people can use instead of a centralized hosted service like Blogrolling?

By: The War on Spam

The War on Spam — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:33:00 +0000

Blogrolling.com Hacked by Spammers
Blorolling.com is a centralized system for bloggers to manage their lists of links. It’s quite popular, because many blogging systems don’t provide an easy way to manage these lists, forcing bloggers to modify their HTML directly.

This mo…

By: Photo Matt

Photo Matt — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 22:15:24 +0000

On Blogrolling Hack
I think the importance of this issue cannot be understated. My thoughts from the WordPress Dev blog: Blogrolling Hack Illustrates Need for Decentralization. It seems that sometime people who manage their blogrolls using blogrolling.com's service ...