I think those are usually SEO (Search Engine Optimization) bots that go around
posting innocuous comments with a link to the thing they want to promote. In
other words, spam.
I still think we should turn on the requirement to log into sourceforge before
posting to the trackers. It'll prevent
I'm sad it's not the first assumption.
I would be really interested in a robot crawling around complimenting people.
If only I knew how to make one...
2012/4/3 Charles Henry :
> On 4/3/12, András Murányi wrote:
>> Maybe it tries to inject javascript for xss
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-
On 4/3/12, András Murányi wrote:
> Maybe it tries to inject javascript for xss
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) or php or mysql to
> be eventually executed on the server? Or we're just being malicious ;)
>
> András
LOL--I get it now. Probably, sourceforge has some intelligen
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 22:53, Charles Henry wrote:
> I'm somewhat confused by these recent comments to the bug tracker
> (tickets 3514520, 3514538, 3514563). There appears to be a spambot
> out there that just enters non-descript compliments into web forms.
>
> Who would write such a thing? I th
I'm somewhat confused by these recent comments to the bug tracker
(tickets 3514520, 3514538, 3514563). There appears to be a spambot
out there that just enters non-descript compliments into web forms.
Who would write such a thing? I thought spambots were created for
phishing scams, selling fake
