Deleting users, for security
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009As this site has been the target of some hackers (who were being paid by a Canadian pharmaceutical seller), I’m having to delete user registration here.
Sorry about that. Being hacked was a byproduct of having user registration, so one or the other has to go…
On the plus side, you do now get spiffy icons that will indicate whether you’re really the same person as when you last commented. So, not such a loss.
My thanks to Stefan Pause for his help and advice on securing the site.
And on the plus side, I’ve taken his advice and updated the permalink structure, which means you now get meaningful (if long) URLs. Win-win, I think. Plus I’ve got some fascinating hacker scripts to deconstruct.