This is frustrating as hell. I've been suspecting this situation since 5/2, when Geeta reported Temporarily Out of Service. Being as I'm not an employee of Blogger, just another Blogger like everybody else, I have to sit on the sidelines with everybody, and watch the fun (NOT).
I can only remind each person with a hijack situation, to Report The Problem To Blogger Support. And anybody who has a clue about this situation, if it differs from what I am writing here, Please! let us know.
But I suffer, as does everybody else, while I wait for my turn at being hijacked. And wonder WTF I'm doing to protect myself (if I am), and why I haven't been hijacked.
Why (how) are all of these blogs getting hijacked?
The Possibilities
One of the recent victims of the hijackings has a blog where discussions about these possibilities are in progress. Your feedback, either here, or there, will be appreciated.
The Bottom Line
Somehow we have to help Blogger Support realise that there is a problem, and then help them see a pattern, so they can identify the problem. Whether the problem is with us or them, WE are the ones who suffer. To them, it's an 8 x 5 job. We spend hella more time worrying. Or suffering. And I'm not really sure which is worse. Being hijacked. Or waiting to be hijacked.
One of the problems is that, when there is a problem, nobody wants to diagnose the problem. They just want it fixed. Now. So the bad guys hijack our lives, with impunity.
WTF is this when a bad guy can abuse us, over and over, and the only solution is to move to a Wordpress blog?
I can only remind each person with a hijack situation, to Report The Problem To Blogger Support. And anybody who has a clue about this situation, if it differs from what I am writing here, Please! let us know.
But I suffer, as does everybody else, while I wait for my turn at being hijacked. And wonder WTF I'm doing to protect myself (if I am), and why I haven't been hijacked.
Why (how) are all of these blogs getting hijacked?
The Possibilities
- The bad guys are attacking thru Blogger client (unpaid staff) personal computers.
- The bad guys are attacking thru Blogger or Blogspot servers.
- The bad guys have brute forced a security hole in a Blogger or Blogspot server.
- A recently applied Blogger software upgrade created a vulnerability, which has been exploited by the bad guys.
- The bad guys have brute forced a security hole in a Blogger or Blogspot server.
- The bad guys are using botnets to detect deleted blogs, and / or to hijack Blogger accounts.
- The bad guys have been hijacking blogs for some time. The recent resolution of several (though not all) widespread Blogger problems has created a lower noise level in the forums, and the hijackings have become more visible.
One of the recent victims of the hijackings has a blog where discussions about these possibilities are in progress. Your feedback, either here, or there, will be appreciated.
The Bottom Line
Somehow we have to help Blogger Support realise that there is a problem, and then help them see a pattern, so they can identify the problem. Whether the problem is with us or them, WE are the ones who suffer. To them, it's an 8 x 5 job. We spend hella more time worrying. Or suffering. And I'm not really sure which is worse. Being hijacked. Or waiting to be hijacked.
One of the problems is that, when there is a problem, nobody wants to diagnose the problem. They just want it fixed. Now. So the bad guys hijack our lives, with impunity.
WTF is this when a bad guy can abuse us, over and over, and the only solution is to move to a Wordpress blog?
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