August 31, 2009

Some fun times!

I seem to have touched a nerve when I posted about the "epic fail" of the script kiddies who are attempting to post comment spam. Someone out there has posted to date, ten thousand spurious emails to all of the accounts on my server and they have also posted other emails with forged headers that would suggest that they originated from the accounts on my server. I make some money by hosting two commercial websites -- these are clients I have had for ten years and for now, there is very little work on my end but a very good feeling back and forth and about $5K into my pocket every year. Both clients know that I use the excess server space for my own personal projects and they are cool with that. The fun thing is that one of these accounts is a Seattle Law Firm and that I have all of the log files and the searching tools to nail some little man to the wall. YES: You caused a disruption and I had to spend some time away from the people I love. NO: You are soooooooooooooo nailed. (snarky grin) tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick earth shattering ka-boom... Posted by DaveH at August 31, 2009 11:49 PM