Richtig said Fred!

Whew, this blog does not even have 24 hours of existence and it has been slammed by 12 comments from a Troll promoting his online casino.

Spammers and Trolls are usually very shy and rarely give out their real e-mail address, they don’t want to receive SPAM after all. So in order to weed out the bad comments one can simply ask the person doing the comment to validate his own opinion by clicking a link sent to their e-mail address, it is simple yet effective.

Another technique that spammers use are BOTs or BOTnets, these are programs put on victims’ computers without the user’s knowledge much like Spyware, Viruses and Trojans. These programs carry on the spamming on behalf of the spammer. If you want to be protected against a Flood of SPAM comments another method is used, the Captcha (a visual password that makes it easy for humans to pass the test and hard for computers to decipher).

The page for the Comment Authorization Plugin for Wordpress is here
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There are 2 local initiatives to strenghten the security in the USA that made it in the news today. The first one is about a system to track students with RFID (radio frequency identification) tags, which Walmart is also implementing to replace the obvious UPC (the barcodes you see everywhere). So, students are not only numbers after all, they are also “blips” on someone’s RADAR. The second news is about Chicago opening an operation center with some 2000 cameras and microphones spread throughout the city. Those 2 ideas were pushed forward to protect against Terrorism, Kidnapping and Violence but the power they concentrate into an operation center send chills down my spine and reminds me of 1984.

The first story about student tags is here.
The second story about the camera network in Chicago is here

I have been thinking for a while about the language into which my blog would be… …my native tongue is french, but i have been practicing english for a while now. I have started german a couple months ago but i am still not profficient enough in order to write “Hello World!” so i guess my german blog will only come about in say 2 to 5 years… As for the french part which would seem most logical, well being fluent in a language makes it possible to easily say stupid things, so i thought that if i had to make some effort i would probably think more about what i say and therefore reduce the crap/output ratio.

So i welcome you all to Richtig said Fred!

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: I consider this blog to be a benevolent dictatorship (as per Linus Torvalds) so if you come here and want to do harm i reserve the complete right to kick/ban you, delete your posts and flame you back to my own desire… …everything else is welcomed!