One hears many complaints about Technorati’s blog search engine, that all it does it return “useless” blogspam search results. Is this a sign of a “bad” search engine or is it indicative of a deeper problem within the blogosphere itself, that it’s riddled with blogspam and automatically generated scraper sites? (Blogger is particularly bad because […]
Of Interest
Widespread PHP vulnerability in XML-RPC
I didn’t bother mentioning the new PHP XML-RPC vulnerability to somebody yesterday, assuming they already knew. Alas, they got burned by it so I’m making it a point to mention these things in a widespread generic sense from now on. As such: if you are running PHP content management systems like blogs, postnuke or anything […]
