It's just sad and sickening what some will do to promote their websites and/or businesses. Yesterday, I was hit with a mini-flood of comment spam here on GearBits. However, this was different -- instead of promoting a pr0n site, it was promoting (and this boggles my mind) an Internet security website called Secure Root.
If you visit the SR website (at www dot secureroot dot com) you will notice it seems as if it is actually trying to provide Internet security-related information to some audience. So if it's trying to establish trust in its advice, why the hell would it engage in such a despicable manner as bombarding GearBits with 30 comment spams in a period of 20 minutes? It took me over an hour to clean them all out.
So, while we're still working on the Movable Type upgrade, comments are going to stay off. I'll announce when they're back on. In the meantime, if anyone has any good ideas about how to make Secure Root aware that its blatant asswipe-like behavior is not appropriate, I'm all ears. Send me an email at
P.S. Why didn't I add a link to the Secure Root website? Well, that would accomplish for the asswipes exactly what they were trying to achieve through their spamming -- added links that improve their Google ranking. Isn't it odd that one of the best tools on the Internet has also fostered an entire range of distasteful practices? I wonder if the net benefit of Google is approaching zero as more and more practices like this get thought up.
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