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[15:34] PasswordSafe 3.01 is out
My favourite password storage facility, PasswordSafe, has just had a major version release. It's had both UI and behind the scenes updates including the ability to collect URL and general notes as well as normal username/password pairs, a brand new DB format and a switch from Blowfish to Twofish. If pwsafe would keep up then everything would be perfect!
[Posted at: 19/06/2006 23:34]
[15:14] Stinking SPAMwhores
Seems that some bastard has started spamming me via the pollxn comment engine. The IP's from the logs aren't really very helpful and my random sampling has ranged through Russia, Japan, Malaysia, Barbados and even the United States! I suspect that they're using a spider but perhaps it's just a search engine looking for common comment engines.
Step 1 in the anti-SPAM offensive has been renaming the pollxn.cgi script. If it's a spider and is even vaguely intelligent then this will do absolutely nothing to stop it so I'm hoping it's not!
I was thinking of implementing a gruesomely simple CAPTCHA for pollxn but I'll wait and see what happens next. I suppose this is a good time to think about whether it might be time to move back to a proper CMS. Blosxom is nice and simple and very easy to use but there's a lot more that I want to be able to do and I don't know if I really want to write my own CMS (which is essentialy what I'm now doing). It has been fun and interesting but I'm not really game to allow my non-web-savy developments out to play on the internet and with so many good packages out there written by people who actually know what they're doing maybe I should spend my time doing something more useful...
[Posted at: 19/06/2006 23:14]
Updated 20/06/2006 23:17: Day One - no sign of intruders so far...
Updated 21/06/2006 18:17: Day Two - BAH! Foiled. Picked up another six advertisements today. Going to have to do something about this. For now comments are suspended.