Monday, September 26, 2011

Somebody Wants This Blog Gone


Someone has repeatedly reported this blog as a violation of Blogger's terms of service. The blog was deleted for about 10 minutes earlier tonight until I called Google, who immediately reinstated it. I am investigating the situation, but you need to know the blog may disappear. If it does, it's because someone doesn't want this blog to exist. Since the blog is not in violation of Google's terms of service, I don't think they'll have much luck getting the blog removed permanently.

UPDATE: I've been talking with a help tech guy on the Google Help forums who thinks either someone is using my IP address in a denial of service attack, or someone is trying to manually hack into my email and blog by guessing the password. Considering the odd behavior of my email, I think someone is trying to hack in but hasn't succeeded.

Every time something strange happened with this account tonight, one specific person was reading the blog. This person visits the blog or refreshes the page constantly, often for 7-8 hours a day, sometimes logging over 150 refreshes/hits. They are either obsessed with this blog or they're looking for a way to hack in, I can't think of any other reason for them to be here so often. Because a hacker could possibly get your IP addresses and emails if they were able to log into this account, this hacking issue concerns you and I wanted to let you know what was going on.

This is why IP addresses are logged, guys, because there's always some jerk who wants to pull a stunt like this. I have no identifying information about this person, but I do have their IP logged and am still talking to Google about the possibility that someone is attempting to hack in. I'll keep you up to date.

If this blog disappears, I will put up a new page somewhere for more updates.



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