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I think they do some checking in the headers. It's not impossible to masquerade as someone. But how many people want to maliciously post to some random person'
by dcurtis 16y ago
I think they do some checking in the headers. It's not impossible to masquerade as someone.
But how many people want to maliciously post to some random person's Posterous blog? Probably not too many.
- josefresco 16y agoIf the system was ever adopted widely (which I presume the founders desire) I would imagine that spoof posting would be a huge problem if someone could pull it off.
- stuntmouse 16y agoAll of the black hats who want to abuse numerous holes in your browser of choice? They wouldn't necessarily even have to get you to click on a link. There have been numerous attacks against image processing libraries.
- alex_c 16y agoI suspect blackhat SEOs would be all over it.
- robinduckett 16y agoActually, I hadn't read this comment! XD
- MrGamma 16y agoI don't think blackhats would be all over it, the links are completely invisible to a search engine... Maybe Smear Campaign artists might take to it. Or spammers...
- robinduckett 16y agoOr people trying to prove a point, check the front page :P
- alex_c 16y agoI'm not too familiar with Posterous, are all links nofollowed? Can't you post arbitrary HTML to your own blog?