Yesterday, BloggingBaby (another Weblogs, Inc. site for which I write) and a number of other WIN sites were taken down by hackers for a few hours. We mentioned it in a posting on our blog, prompting some criticism from readers who thought we shouldn't even discuss it - because that's what the hackers want us to do. As notoriety is their chief goal, a commenter suggested, every last bit of press just gives them more of what they work for - and more reasons to keep on hacking. What do you all think? Should we mention our quick response, or simply ignore the hacking behavior with the hopes it will go away (just like those temper tantrums we also write about on Blogging Baby)?
1. Hell yeah! Why would you wanna keep it down. There is an old saying in India which roughly translates to -- a crow covering its eyes (in fear) cannot see the fast approaching cat, but the fact remains, the cat is coming to eat the crow.
We don't have to be quite about the spam/cracking menace. I won't be. The attempts at spreadfirefox and at the weblogs network has me worried as hell. I now get close to 80 spam messages.
The best measures are to spread awareness, and I am very sure you can't do that by keeping mum.
Just my two cents.
Posted at 4:51AM on Dec 19th 2005 by Shashank Sharma