WordPress – ok to sign in? should pssword be changed?
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Look, I’m just trying to be helpful here. If you want to pick a fight with someone, the very best place to do that is on their blog.
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raincoaster- i am surely not talking to you :) (or I should say, ranting). Thank you for your post.
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That’s inaccuarte information raincoaster. Dreamhost.com never told me or my company (that actually was the publisher of the blog at WordPress), that they would remove Jaylee.cn from their servers. My attorney advised me that the best course of action (preliminary) was to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commisssion (FTC). No need to apologize, shelvonne; the “guides” here think they’re lawyers or salaried workers for WordPress.
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Thank you mint mark (and raincoaster too). I was looking forward to everything but now not. I signed up and named a page and then started looking at the hows and then went back to looking up word press “stuff” for how-to’s and came across that site that had the forum on it where we ask questions but it didn’t start the same in the url so I wanted to ask and now I’m literally crying and I don’t cry but I’m just so disappointed because of the plans I had for my blog and now I have to go look elsewhere to put it and I really liked all that word press had to offer and I really wanted to get the info I have out to the public and thought a blog would be a good way to do it. Maybe this is an omen that I shouldn’t. I have no idea if ‘my blog’ was copied by someone else, I don’t have one, only a blank page. I only (now know) that word press’s forum was. I don’t know how to see if anybody’s blogs were. That’s got to be a headache.
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Nobody but you is claiming that anyone is any thing in particular, mintmark. I thought you said you were leaving? That would be productive to the discussion, at this point.
This is what you posted, claiming that they sent you this:
Thank you for writing. We are always willing to assist copyright owners
guard their content and remove it from infringing websites, but we need
to receive these complaints in the form of a formal Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA) notice. This is a legal document that assures that
you are the owner of the copyright and asserts your rights over the
specific content involved.Any competent intellectual property attorney can draw up a DMCA notice in
just a few minutes. Once you have this document, please send it to us
directly at:(email visible only to moderators and staff)
Once we receive the notice and verify that it includes all of the points
required by the DMCA law, we will remove the content promptly from our
servers.If you have any further questions, feel free to write to the address
noted above.Karl
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– DreamHost Abuse/Security Team
– Terms of Service: http://www.dreamhost.com/tos.html
shelvonne, I’m afraid I have to admit I don’t understand why you’re upset. This happens to blogs no matter where they are; the only way to prevent it is to keep your blog private, ie invisible to search engines and to everyone but authorized readers. You can do that with your blog at WordPress if you want. If you want other people to be able to read it, this could happen anywhere; it’s like you could get mugged out on the street and the only way to utterly prevent that is to stay inside all the time.
Like I said (and like dreamhost said) you can take action if you find you’ve been ripped off, very easily. And always remember that the blog scrapers don’t every outrank the original blogs they’ve stolen from; it’s a pathetic way to eke out a living, and they are paying for it through their very souls. No-one can take the most important part of what you’ve written away from you, because YOU and only you are the only person who can come up with that. You are an original. And they’re nothing but clones.
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Further communication with Dreamhost.com, which you are not privy to, rainman, indicates they are not sincere.
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How would I know that for sure? You’ve got a horrible reputation for veracity here in the forums.
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No, raincoaster, what you probably mean is that I’m obnoxious. That’s because I run several businesses, and I get things done. This is definitely an issue that will be resolved.
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raincoaster my blog has not been copied is what I am saying – the wordpress in it’s entirety has been hijacked. I only wanted to know if it is safe to continue using our user and passwords. I know how to change them. But my question from the beginning is, if the whole entire shabange has been completely hijacked, basically, is it ok to keep, well, USING our user id’s and passwords until this matter is cleared up. It’s not just one blog, it’s the whole thing. I am wondering if they have access to that data too. Changing that data on our end doesn’t help if they still have the site, assuming that the user id & password are indeed compromised. I was only wondering if they were compromised in this situation (which is much bigger than a blog or two I just can’t seem to get that across without actually stating it – I really did not want to state it on a public forum) It’s word press, period, that has been hijacked. Gosh I hate trying to communicate via typing :)
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WordPress hasn’t been hacked. My blogs here are only here. They don’t show up anywhere else.
One of the things I like about WP.com is they take our security very seriously. That’s the big reason we’re not able to use a lot of the nifty widgets you find out there on the net. They use javascript and flash and iframes which do introduce vulnerabilities that a “hacker” could exploit.
I don’t know exactly how the blog scrapers do what they do. But it’s impossible to lock down anything on the net. People who know scripting (for example in Perl or Python) can easily pull pages off the web onto their local machines.
Your best defense to keep your information safe is having strong passwords. No dictionary words/names/dates. A combo of letters/numbers/symbols. A minimum of 8 characters. Change your passwords frequently.
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It’s a mirror. He’s got wiki too. It looks like they’re doing it as a means of getting the info in China that is blocked.
wow – way to go China!
“365BlogLink.com – Tag [ china ]You can visit world famous encyclopedia website from China. (Which has blocked because of its violation with Chinsese political sensor.)via Jaylee’s blog. http://www.jaylee.cn -> his bloghttp://wikipedia.jaylee.cn -> mirror of wikipedia … ”
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shelvonne, it’s not WordPress that’s been hijacked: WordPress and all wordpress blogs work just fine. What they’re doing is copying blogs, not hijacking them (more like xeroxing than stealing). It’s also against the law, and the thing to do is send the message to dreamhost in the format as I printed on the last page. For all we know they’re scraping Blogger blogs too, or Myspace or whatever.
They can’t get into your account, so there’s no need for you to change your password. You can if you want, though. Why not? If you want your blog protected against scrapers, make it private and invisible to search engines. If you’re just starting out and you don’t particularly care about Google ranking and such, that’s what I’d recommend. That way only people you authorize can read your blog. Another tip: don’t use the RSS widget, as a lot of these blog scrapers just subscribe to your RSS feed and get the contents that way. Why make it easy for them?
Those measures should protect your new blog pretty well: change the password, and set the privacy to Invisible to Search Engines, and visible only to the people you invite. And if you do get scraped, follow the instructions on the previous page. If that doesn’t get you satisfaction (and it often does) then call a lawyer or write it off. And take satisfaction in knowing they’ll never beat you and they’ll probably go out of business soon enough. A business based on criminality is inherently unstable.
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Oh hey, good catch there. This came up in Boles’ blog a couple of days ago, too. They could well just be making a mirror of WordPress to make it available to China, which blocks us. If that’s the case, good for them and I totally support that.
See, you’re brand new to blogging and you’re already on top of the international scene! Cool.
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