Jim Kukral: Do Not Fuck With Blogrush! Hackers Beware!
Jim "Genuine" Turner
· 2 years ago
Agreed Jim, I think that challenging hackers might be the wrong way to go, but on the other hand what a great way to have hackers do your work for you. I'm not sure the email message was all that professional from the leader of a company. I might have had them post it differently.
Brian Free
· 2 years ago
but how far will the fire burn?
TDavid
· 2 years ago
The rambling Reese diatribe just struck me as more pathetic than anything I wanted or needed to read via email. He would have been better blogging that where subscribers could follow if they really wanted to.
We tried the Blogrush widget on one of our blogs. Thousands of impressions not a single clickthru. Goodbye.
Dane Morgan
· 2 years ago
What really struck me was the sense of an utter and complete disconnect from the realities of the web today. Simply stated if you run a program which offers to give you "credits" that can lead to "traffic" and the method you give people to "earn" these credits can be automated, it will be.
The email left me with the strong feeling that it never occurred to anyone working on this project that people would attempt to automate the generation of credits, reduce the possibility of any traffic loss and attempt to exploit and mathematic or programatic opportunities presented. Not that I think people should do this, just that I know they will, and was struck by the sense that John and Crew did not.
Carsten Cumbrowski
· 2 years ago
I suggest he checks out some of the session videos from DefCon to get his head straight. Somebody is living in a bubble far far away from reality.
The people who can really exploit it badly that it will hurt the network are the people he will not get regardless how much money he throws at it to "get" them (unless he spends the money on a guerilla army and starts invading some independent nations with them).
The only thing this email did is a) damages his reputation (for example I think now that he is an idiot. I didn't think that before that email) b) provoked some guys (in addition to the guys who might abuse or want to abuse the network) who might feel compelled now to show him that he is an idiot and wrong
tsts...
Cy
· 2 years ago
Why bother?
As a subscriber to his, it came to no suprise, coming from the drama king.
YC
· 2 years ago
I always hear of John Reese being one of the top so-and-so, but seriously, that was one email I was surprised to receive (not on any of his other mailing lists). I thought it was pretty juvenile and if he really needed to sound out the hackers, go to them direct. Just let us 'users' hear what we are more concerned about - the 'improvements'.
Secret Marketing Links
· 2 years ago
Hi,
I am the guy who warned John Reece that his system was hacked. I don't use his BlogRush system because I don't believe it will work on the long run.
Every automated system can be hacked by reverse engineering, and trying to catch the thieves, is like the Music and Film industry who wants to stop people sharing the things they like.
John Reese is a clever guy who knows that he needs other people content to get "Him" money in it's pockets. This is also something Hackers know, so if John is so pissed off, it is because, he wants the same, and was caught at his own game.
He is willing to pay people 10 $ an hour to approve websites, and this is a step in the good direction I think, but the directory of yahoo was also closed after a while for not beeing lucrative enough. And when did you use the Dmoz site ? I guess not much ;..
Wow, how unprofessional. A good CEO would never send out a public e-mail of this sort. I think it would be sufficient to combat hackers behind the scenes, because, as Jim says, such public hacker-bashing will likely backfire.
All Comments
We tried the Blogrush widget on one of our blogs. Thousands of impressions not a single clickthru. Goodbye.
The email left me with the strong feeling that it never occurred to anyone working on this project that people would attempt to automate the generation of credits, reduce the possibility of any traffic loss and attempt to exploit and mathematic or programatic opportunities presented. Not that I think people should do this, just that I know they will, and was struck by the sense that John and Crew did not.
The people who can really exploit it badly that it will hurt the network are the people he will not get regardless how much money he throws at it to "get" them (unless he spends the money on a guerilla army and starts invading some independent nations with them).
The only thing this email did is
a) damages his reputation (for example I think now that he is an idiot. I didn't think that before that email)
b) provoked some guys (in addition to the guys who might abuse or want to abuse the network) who might feel compelled now to show him that he is an idiot and wrong
tsts...
As a subscriber to his, it came to no suprise, coming from the drama king.
I am the guy who warned John Reece that his system was hacked. I don't use his BlogRush system because I don't believe it will work on the long run.
Every automated system can be hacked by reverse engineering, and trying to catch the thieves, is like the Music and Film industry who wants to stop people sharing the things they like.
John Reese is a clever guy who knows that he needs other people content to get "Him" money in it's pockets. This is also something Hackers know, so if John is so pissed off, it is because, he wants the same, and was caught at his own game.
He is willing to pay people 10 $ an hour to approve websites, and this is a step in the good direction I think, but the directory of yahoo was also closed after a while for not beeing lucrative enough. And when did you use the Dmoz site ? I guess not much ;..
David Norden
http://www.secretmarketinglinks.com