MyBlogLog Becomes MyBuggedLog

MyBlogLog LogoYesterday, Jeremy “ShoeMoney” was banned from MyBlogLog for posting articles about how to hack MyBlogLog. One of his first articles about hacking MyBlogLog was written three weeks ago, and the problems were not fixed. I don’t know about my fellow bloggers that are using the system, but this is unacceptable. I love using MyBlogLog and think that it is a great system, but I don’t enjoy that people can spoof other people’s identities and view my site as someone else. While I won’t go as far as Andy Beal who has decided to boycott MyBlogLog, I do hope that they fix the problem. By simply verifying the session id cookie they could fix the problem. While exploring the MyBlogLog cookies in my browser I noticed the mbl_sid cookie which is prefaced with my user id seems to be present. Perhaps they have since fixed the problem that ShoeMoney discussed a couple days ago, but banning him for making the issue public is unnecessary. They have essentially banned one of their most avid users. Bad idea guys.

February 23rd, 2007

One Response to “MyBlogLog Becomes MyBuggedLog”

  • Eric Marcoullier Says:

    Shoemoney stopped being an avid user weeks ago. To quote him from another comment thread: “Basically once JZ tried to call out beal as a spammer for something THEY WERE IN ON … it was on.”

    So regardless of the fact that 1) JS isn’t a part of our team and 2) he apologized immediately, Shoe decided to start doing everything he could to get retribution for this slight against a fellow blogger.

    The lesson here seems to be “popular bloggers can do what they want, and we better appease them because no one else is going to get all the facts before reblogging the story.”

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