Lien intéressant trouvé via Maarten Schenk (qui en profite bien entendu pour faire sa petite pub pour Typepad), cet article qui illustre un certain vécu avec bxl.blog et qui explique pourquoi Technorati n’indexe plus les blogs tournant sur des anciennes versions de WordPress, dont voici un extrait :
The blogosphere has had its share of maladies before. Comment spam, trackback spam, splogs and link trading schemes are the colds and flus that we've come to know and groan about. But lately, a cancer has afflicted the ecosystem that has led us at Technorati to take some drastic measures. Thousands of WordPress installations out in the wilds of the web are vulnerable to security compromises, they are being actively exploited and we're not going to index them until they're fixed.
We know about them at Technorati because part of what we do is count links. Compromised blogs have been coming to our attention because they have unusually high outbound links to spam destinations. The blog authors are usually unaware that they've been p0wned because the links are hidden with style attributes to obscure their visibility. Some bloggers only find out when they've been dropped by Google, this WordPress user wrote:
“My 2.2 installation was being hacked into and spam hidden links dumped into index.php. I didn't notice until google decided to ban me (they have now reincluded my site).”
Marrant de voir quels conséquence une faille peut avoir. Je suis en tout cas content d’avoir écrit mon propre blog. Entre temps tout est de nouveau en ordre avec bxl.blog.
