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by James Robertson.
Original Post: A small hole
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It seems that my spam filtering code for this blog server had a small hole in it - and sure enough, someone exploited it this afternoon. I patched it as some moron was trying to comment spam various blogs; he hit two, and was trying the third when I updated the spam detection code to plug the hole. A bunch of attempted spam comments dropped into the spam trap folder. I repaired the other posts, and now things are back to normal. Yet another reason that I love being able to hot patch a server...
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