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Hi All,
minstrel, Thanks for linking to that cookie stuffing article at my blog. I think it's really important that forum owners understand this trick and know how to catch people doing it so they can ban them and get the cookie stuffing code off their forums. Even though you can't see anything to alert you there is cookie stuffing in a post, there are some behavioral things that can tip you off.
There are also a couple solutions forum owners can implement to stop it from happening, but it's a trade-off that many forum owners won't want to make because it affects certain features.
Ferre - it's not just BB code. It can be done with HTML too.
I get numerous requests per week from forum owners who have read that article and want to know how to catch it. I'm happy to help anyone that asks. You just have to email me from your forum email address or somehow verify you own a forum. Had one guy with a yahoo email that said "hey dude can you send that cookie stuffing info?" I don't send it to just anyone obviously.
Anyway back to the topic at hand and the situation with Shawn... I've blogged about the case in detail and based on some of the details in the legal doc I'm pretty sure they've been using that same cookie stuffing method up in the blog post minstrel linked to. I'm not saying they are guilty, just that the methods described are the ones I'm talking about.
Kills me all the idiotic posts over at DP from people who have no clue. Cookie stuffing is out and out stealing, so anyone that says go for it does not understand. Hopefully no matter the outcome of this case it will send a warning message to the black hatters and cut back on some of the cookie stuffing that's going on.
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