Comments on: Who Do You Blame When Your Blog Gets Hacked? http://www.startertech.com/2009/09/06/who-do-you-blame-when-your-blog-gets-hacked/ Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:49:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: cori http://www.startertech.com/2009/09/06/who-do-you-blame-when-your-blog-gets-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-3740 cori Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:59:53 +0000 http://www.startertech.com/?p=2153#comment-3740 Certainly compromised blog owners have no one else to blame - one of my blogs was hacked and I had to jump through some restore hoops to get it back up, but I'm definitely responsible for that. That said, the dashboard notification is only a partial solution - plenty of people (perhaps including Scoble) only ever interface with their blog using an external tool, and so never see the dashboard.... Certainly compromised blog owners have no one else to blame – one of my blogs was hacked and I had to jump through some restore hoops to get it back up, but I'm definitely responsible for that.

That said, the dashboard notification is only a partial solution – plenty of people (perhaps including Scoble) only ever interface with their blog using an external tool, and so never see the dashboard….

]]> By: Robert Scoble http://www.startertech.com/2009/09/06/who-do-you-blame-when-your-blog-gets-hacked/comment-page-1/#comment-3737 Robert Scoble Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:23:14 +0000 http://www.startertech.com/?p=2153#comment-3737 It is not accurate to say I didn't blame myself. I blamed myself all over the place. By the way I have talked with people who have been hacked even with all patches loaded. After all, those patches get released because someone got hacked and an exploit is on the loose. What do you say to them? It is not accurate to say I didn’t blame myself. I blamed myself all over the place. By the way I have talked with people who have been hacked even with all patches loaded. After all, those patches get released because someone got hacked and an exploit is on the loose. What do you say to them?

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