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| Sunday, December 10, 2006 |
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We can ass-check your facts 
PageCrack
| | But every site has has its position in the recommendation social network, its ability to link, its Pagerank and "trust". |
| | Thus, if a bad guy finds a security flaw in some website software, rather than being reduced to writing "d00dz rul3z!" on a page, which is not profitable, there's now a brand-new way to make money off the cracking: Insert links to boost another site's search engine results. |
| | One "advantage" of this scam is that sites of non-profit organizations are likely to have a lot of rank and trust, but overworked and underpaid webmasters, which makes such sites a "sweet spot" for exploitation. |
| | So obscure, "hidden" links inserted in various places are not likely to be noticed, and finding someone to fix the page won't set off the sort of red alert reaction involved in credit-card theft. |
| | Would a fake link be a "flink"? If it's a spam link, dare we call it a "slink"? Just wondering. |
A gray lining to the silver cloud
| | It was a bunch of men and a few women in their fifties and sixties who were feeling especially energetic, optimistic and eager to change the world who started the war in Iraq. So being energetic, optimistic and eager to change the world is no guarantee that you're going to make the world a better place. Indeed, there is some evidence to suggest that you might just make it a worse one. And, |
| | Maybe, in the very long term, the best ideas will win out. In the meantime, in our brief lives here, we have to endure things like the Iraq war, and people with something to sell intruding ever more into what remains of our lives that we haven't already surrendered to commercial interests. |
| | First, people of all ages have crapped up the world. There's "some evidence" of that too. |
| | Second, if VRM works, whether in the very long term or in something shorter than that, there will be less surrender to commercial interests and fewer people intruding into our lives to sell stuff. And if it fails, it's not like we started a war and said 'woops'. |
Ahat of himself
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