Digg.com, one my favorite sites of getting blogging materials is apparently under spam attack right now. I first noticed that the front page stories are getting unusually high number of comments (more than 100 each), and upon checking, it seems that someone is running a script to comment-spam digg.com. All comments point to http://tinyurl.com/eyafl, which leads to a post hosted on Blogger about exploiting Digg.com’s non-hierarchical editorial control (which has been removed by Google by the way).
It’s not difficult to launch a comment spam on Digg.com (at least at the moment). There is no captcha and neither there is any flood control. Just fire up a small Perl script that sends POST requests to the article that loops endlessly would beat the system, and of course bring annoyance to its users.
More screenshots: 1, 2.
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