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Amnesty International have just released a truly powerful film to coincide with the official launch of the unsubscribe campaign.

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Update 20-02-2008:

Google does not allow this content here. Because the original text holds the name of the domain providing the advertisement, Google decided my site linked advertisement. Effectively Google is censoring my webpage and blogging about malware now seems to be impossible.

So the site got hacked. My nice little site was turned into a spam site for ‘mobile ring tones’. Ring tones are not something I would normally write about. So here is the information I could find about the whole event.

First thing to note: I was running on Wordpress 2.2.1. The current Wordpress version at this time of writing is 2.3.1, so the first thing I will do after creating this post is update to that version.

The posts include a couple of links: original text censored by Google (I had to remove the name of the site, let’s pretend it was an info site about some ringtones-top). If I go to that link it tells me that the offer is not available in my region and it redirects me to (finally) a company called original text censored by Google (again posting this name puts me in danger of being marked as a malware site, it was a company called perfspot). For completeness sake, I will include the result of whois for both websites:

Domain ID:D20274359-LRMS
Domain Name: censored by Google
Created On:17-Oct-2007 12:13:32 UTC
Last Updated On:17-Oct-2007 13:08:31 UTC
Expiration Date:17-Oct-2008 12:13:32 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:eNom, Inc. (R126-LRMS)
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Registrant ID:A73F200DAE57EC01
Registrant Name:WhoisGuard Protected
Registrant Organization:WhoisGuard
Registrant Street1:8939 S. Sepulveda Blvd. #110 -
Registrant Street2:732
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Westchester
Registrant State/Province:CA
Registrant Postal Code:90045
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.6613102107
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:4648f2c48efd4542a673de6b8b59afed.protect@whoisguard.com

AND:

censored by Google
1275 W. Washington St.
Tempe, AZ 85281
US

Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: censored by Google
Created on: 14-AUG-06
Expires on: 14-AUG-08
Last Updated on: 28-JUN-07

Administrative, Technical Contact:
,censored by Google support@censored by Google
censored by Google
1275 W. Washington St.
Tempe, AZ 85281
US
888-311-7373

It seems that not every registrant at whoisguard.com is just avoiding spam here…

So let’s search google for this issue. A combination of censored by Google and wordpress shows there is indeed an issue with the version of wordpress I am using.

Seems the spammers used a bug in theme.php and feed.php. My logfiles only last 6 days so I will probably not be able to find out who has been posting the stuff

Sometimes coincidence just plays it games. Today BoingBoing posts a story about vinegar and the things you can do with it. I would say that just comes in handy whenever you might need it.

Sample recommendations:

Make creamy scrambled eggs: as eggs thicken when scrambling, add a tablespoon of vinegar for every two eggs.

Rub vinegar on the cut end of uncooked ham to prevent mold.

Add a tsp. of vinegar and sugar to correct a too-salty taste (in any recipe).

Pour a dash of white vinegar on a cloth and lay it over a burn, including sunburn.

Try vinegar ice cubes to clean and deodorize a garbage disposal.

Pour a cup of vinegar into the dishwasher and run the empty machine through the whole cycle to get rid of soap buildup and odors.

Use a paste of vinegar and baking soda to clean tarnished brass, copper, and pewter, or the scorch marks on the bottom of an iron.

Renew sponges, loofahs, dingy white socks, and dish rags by letting them soak overnight in dilute vinegar.

Remove grease and grime from fan blades, oven interiors, tops of refrigerators, etc.

Pour 1/2 cup baking soda and 1 cup vinegar into a sandwich-sized or quart-sized plastic bag and tying over a scummy shower-head for an hour.

Clean toilet bowl rings by turning off the input spigot, removing water from the bowl, and laying vinegar-soaked paper towels on the ring for an hour or more.

Stretch any commercial window cleaner by combining it with 1/3 water and 1/3 vinegar.

Scrub fireplace bricks with vinegar.

Decrease static or dust accumulation of plastic or vinyl surfaces by wiping them down with vinegar and water.

Use vinegar on mildewed garments that cannot take bleach.

Wash new clothes with 1/2 cup white vinegar to eliminate manufacturing chemicals.

Remove odor and perspiration or deodorant stains by spraying vinegar on underarm or collar areas.

Make nylon hose look smoother and last longer by adding a tablespoon over vinegar to the rinse water.

Get salt stains off shoes with a dilute vinegar wipe.

Stop itching from insect stings or poison ivy by dabbing or spraying with vinegar.

To cut appetite and reduce weight, drink one glass of a mixture of vinegar, honey, and grapefruit juice before meals.

Pour vinegar wherever you don’t want ants to congregate.

Add it to the kids’ sandbox to discourage cats from employing it. Also, spray vinegar on furniture or surfaces you want a cat to leave alone.

Get rid of rust on spigots, tools, or bolts by soaking them.

Tighten the cane in a sagging chair by sponging it with a heated solution of 50/50 vinegar and water.

Wash skinned game with a 50/50 vinegar/water solution to reduce the gamey taste.

Add vinegar to a pet’s drinking water to discourage fleas and mange.

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