{"id":12155,"date":"2007-11-02T14:33:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-02T21:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/11\/02\/you-know-that-post-about-torture.html"},"modified":"2007-11-02T14:33:32","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T21:33:32","slug":"you_know_that_post_about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/02\/you_know_that_post_about.html","title":{"rendered":"You know that post about torture?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I think I would have absolutely no <\/em>compunction about waterboarding<\/a> spammers<\/em>.  Not to get any information out of them, mind you — just to make them suffer.<\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, I know …<\/p>\n

But having just spent a few hours trying to fix comment spam in my old photo galleries, I’m not feeling terribly nice toward the group as a whole.  And it’s not even the various “performance enhancer” types of spams I’m talking about here, but pretty nasty and disgusting pr0n links spambotted alongside pictures of my wife and daughter.<\/p>\n

Yeah, a bit of good thuggish bloodletting and infliction of gratuitous pain sounds pretty good right about now.<\/p>\n

(For the record, I thought I had addressed this particular security gap, but I happened to run across some things showing up in my web site visit logs, and tracked them down to discover that (a) I hadn’t stopped folks from adding comments in all areas, and (b) even where I had, it was still possible to search <\/em>for the comments.  Rrg.  I’ve turned off all the comment options, and 600ed both the comment add module and the search module.  Which should do the trick, a lot more easily than individually <\/em>deleting each of the several hundred-or-more spam comments.)<\/p>\n

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Note:  No, I don’t think I would torture a spammer.  Not really.  But I might enjoy shackling one up and making him\/her think <\/em>I was going to torture them … Or, failing that, I might be convinced to seriously key their car.<\/p>\n

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I think I would have absolutely no compunction about waterboarding spammers.  Not to get any information out of them, mind you — just to make them suffer. 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