TrackBack Spam Attack
I've temporally disabled the TrackBack support for this blog due to a massive spam attack. It's my fault, I must admit. I enabled the TrackBack feature in my blog engine and left the anti-spam code for another day. I've been quite busy since then and some malicious robot found the open door. I think this is part of the risk I accepted when decided to write my own engine instead of running a well known one, like WordPress, though.
Now, I have to delete all the spam (maybe programmatically because I've received a lot of false TrackBacks) and turn TrackBack on again with anti-spam protection added, so I have more work to do.
But this case has a positive side effect: This attack has been a great help in testing and debugging my blog engine. So it's not so bad after all, although I don't want it to happen again.
I guess TrackBack will be back in next weekend, since anti-spam protection is half coded already (I remember now that I need to code a better anti-spam protection for comments too). If I wasn't so lazy... (sigh).
