Here is a comment which really sent “frissons” down my spine. I mean chills. Chill chills. It might spook you out too.
Take a close look at entry 14. below from my WordPress spam editor. You’ll see the URI is http://check-drug-etcetera.com. But somehow it is linked to Rohan Pinto’s LID page. Rohan is a cool dude working on Identity and even InfoCard issues over in the Sun world (more later…).
I wonder what this new species of blogspam is all about - I’ll ping him. Maybe they randomly read my comments, link to something in an existing comment (Rohan has written to me in the past) and then stick in their URL so they will get link inflation.
Well guys, I caught it and you won’t get no link-inflation off me.
WOW !!!. Thats something that sent chills down my spine too…. I wonder how someone could have used my LID to “authenticate” and post messages to your site. What troubles me more is that your blog is NOT LID enabled at the moment, so how could someone have done that. On second thoughts I believe that this is not a LID authenticated post but a regular post wih my LID url in the meesage post.. and also the IP adress if believe is either spoofed or a anonymous proxy has been used.
This boils down to my original concerns about user controlled identites. They can be misused. and well, and you are showing me a first hand example of how it can be misused without me having to go through a demo of it myself…
Rohan - it absolutely is NOT LID-authenticated. It is just something someone attempted to post to my blog. But somehow seems to interact with the LID site (in this case just returning the privacy message). At any rate, I’m becoming progressively more convinced that SPAM is just as much a problem for URLs and blogs as it is for email. In fact its getting worse.
Kim
True Kim,. SPAM is a menace, and in todays world it’s as much a menace in blogdom as in email.
I wonder if it can everr be circumvented or stopped. Spammers find new innovative ways of getting around whaterver is being developed to prevent it.
My dilema with regard to this SPAM-COMMENT post - is - Why me ? Why MY LID ?? or is someone trying to prove a point after reading my post on how miscreants could use URL based identites in a way it was not originally intended to be used. Guess I’ll never know.