On 2009 Dec 16, Wed, at 2:50 pm, Dan & Joan wrote:
My two websites - Stillwater and Sweet Grass - seem to be okay. Of
note... I haven't saved the password online and have to reenter it
every time I upload... which I did for one of my counties this
afternoon before I noticed the situation.
Save a password online? I expect you mean have your computer save it
in the key-chain service? It may seem to be safer to not have it
saved, but truly (at least the Macintosh keychain) ought to be as
safe as typing it each time so far as access from a hacker who does
not have physical access to your computer. If our computers were
appropriately bugged, they could send every key pressed! :-) but I
see nothing to indicate that is the case. Anyhow, this is not just
YOUR account, but surely a more "global" or admin account to do the
same to so many accounts.
I think it would be useful to someone with closer access to know
which accounts were affected, and are they affected in identical or
similar ways.
Hubby's web site - Valley - has the movie stuff but with code
"no
display" so that code doesn't show up on the screen. I don't
understand the logic of why someone would insert code with
instructions not to display.
The exact line I see preceding the links is:
<p style=display:none>
(closed after the URLs with the appropriate </p>
and yes, a puzzlement indeed. What motive or method?
I don't see how our viewers would activate the links.
It would almost make one wonder if it were done by an errant robot
with illegal access! :-)
Also, and this has nothing to do with us per se, looking at this
from a bit of a different angle - are the movies in the list
pirated (i.e. not out or only recently out in dvd)? Could whomever
is doing this being using us for some other nefarious reason (not
that it makes any difference and I don't want to get paranoid) not
pertaining to genealogy?
I don't know the movies, but the main website (
jamespot.com) appears
to be some sort of social network, but I didn't register to learn
more. It appears you register, get their gadget to mark web content
that interests you and stick in on our "spot" or account where you
can fraternize and show off and presumably comment on stuff. At
least that is my impression from a cursory look for possible clues to
the nature of things. I saw nothing to make me think the jamespot
folks had any say in this, nor even knowledge, for that matter.
Someone might ask them to see--
Ben Andrus