Some soulless creep who nicked my password from Twitter has exploited a security weakness of mine (advice to all: mix up your passwords!) to hack into several of my accounts and use it as a base for his spam.
Gods help you if you followed that link:
l espritd ecordoue.o rg/com.frie nd.php?a gluck y=76i1 ←This is what it looked like. (I’ve disarmed it. Don’t follow it!)
I’m looking at the stats for my site today and I see that two people who came here clicked on that link.
This is a good opportunity for me to tell you that I would never write such an obvious spammy title for a post as “I know about your problems and just want to help you.” If I were to ever use that as a title, you can bet it would be ironic–not ironic in the sense of appearing to be sincerely about a link that could “help” you but actually being about a link where you will go to pick up spyware and malware from some lowlife spammer or ID thief. I mean it would be ironic in a way that you would know instantly was ironic. It might well be about my contempt for anyone who uses the internet to troll for marks and victims.
In any case, I want to make clear that I don’t intend to use this website to sell anything, least of all dietary supplements, penis enlargers, replica watches, naked pictures of Scarlet Johannsen, or get-rich-quick schemes. So please, if you see anything like that on this site, assume some waste of space has hacked me. And don’t click on the link!
Despite this link looking shady, I assure you it is not (now hows that for sounding like a Russian spambot):
http://xkcd.com/936/
It’s a cartoon with a couple things to say about password strength and memorability.