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Unusual official Posterous blog post

5 points by ralph 15y ago

jgrahamc 15y ago
So, whoever Julio Capote is, it looks like his machine has been hacked. Also, apparently (although it could all be a fake) he likes to look at porn on the web. I guess we found the one guy who likes porn. Also, he looks like he's interested in George Washington Carver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver
- willvarfar 15y ago
  its obvious his blog has been hacked. it is not obvious his home computer has been hacked and he looks at porn - that could be faked. Whichever way, his life is ruined.
ralph 15y ago
I've tried to email help@posterous.com to ensure they know. Got an immediate SPF bounce. "help@posterous.uservoice.com rejected a message that claimed an envelope sender address of ralph@[elided]. "help@posterous.uservoice.com received a message from getfile.posterous.com (184.106.20.101) that claimed an envelope sender address of ralph@[elided]. "However, the domain [elided] has declared using SPF that it does not send mail through getfile.posterous.com (184.106.20.101). That is why the message was rejected." I'm happy with my SPF definitions; looks like an internal posterous problem. Can someone who knows the posterous mob give them a bell; they may appreciate the wake-up. :-) Thanks.
- nopassrecover 15y ago
  Yeah at less than a thousand views so far, damage control could still be effective.
- jgrahamc 15y ago
  I mailed them but didn't get a bounce. So perhaps the message will get through. Update. And their reply: ~~~ Reply above this line ~~~ Hello John, Thank-you for the report. I have gone in and taken the post down so that it is no longer live. Julio is a contributor of our main blog and his email address was compromised and used to send that post. Posterous itself has not been compromised and the posting has been removed. Thank-you for using Posterous and I apologize for the inconvenience. Kathleen
  - ralph 15y ago
    I considered doing that, e.g. log into a gmail account, but help@ is unlikely to wake them up or alert them quickly, unfortunately. Could really do with a personal call to someone that works there.
  - willvarfar 15y ago
    Its a real shame the OP chose to get upvotes here rather than find another way to alert posterous and keep it contained. Schadenfreude :(
    - ralph 15y ago
      Rubbish. It was emailed to me by Posterous as I subscribe to the blog, so to lots of others too I'd have thought. I searched Twitter and found many tweets about the hack; the cat's already out of the bag. The View count on the article shows many have read it but I agree further constraint would be worthwhile. I attempted to contact them, it failed due to their error, and the method wouldn't have been urgent enough anyway. Knowing of their connection to news.yc I came here to raise the issue with a crowd that would be sympathetic and would likely know of a means of direct contact. Though by all means up-vote my post. ;-)
  - ralph 15y ago
    Thanks John.

5 points by ralph 15y ago

So, whoever Julio Capote is, it looks like his machine has been hacked. Also, apparently (although it could all be a fake) he likes to look at porn on the web. I guess we found the one guy who likes porn. Also, he looks like he's interested in George Washington Carver: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver

willvarfar 15y ago
its obvious his blog has been hacked. it is not obvious his home computer has been hacked and he looks at porn - that could be faked. Whichever way, his life is ruined.

ralph 15y ago

I've tried to email help@posterous.com to ensure they know. Got an immediate SPF bounce. "help@posterous.uservoice.com rejected a message that claimed an envelope sender address of ralph@[elided]. "help@posterous.uservoice.com received a message from getfile.posterous.com (184.106.20.101) that claimed an envelope sender address of ralph@[elided]. "However, the domain [elided] has declared using SPF that it does not send mail through getfile.posterous.com (184.106.20.101). That is why the message was rejected." I'm happy with my SPF definitions; looks like an internal posterous problem. Can someone who knows the posterous mob give them a bell; they may appreciate the wake-up. :-) Thanks.

nopassrecover 15y ago
Yeah at less than a thousand views so far, damage control could still be effective.
jgrahamc 15y ago
I mailed them but didn't get a bounce. So perhaps the message will get through. Update. And their reply: ~~~ Reply above this line ~~~ Hello John, Thank-you for the report. I have gone in and taken the post down so that it is no longer live. Julio is a contributor of our main blog and his email address was compromised and used to send that post. Posterous itself has not been compromised and the posting has been removed. Thank-you for using Posterous and I apologize for the inconvenience. Kathleen
- ralph 15y ago
  I considered doing that, e.g. log into a gmail account, but help@ is unlikely to wake them up or alert them quickly, unfortunately. Could really do with a personal call to someone that works there.
- willvarfar 15y ago
  Its a real shame the OP chose to get upvotes here rather than find another way to alert posterous and keep it contained. Schadenfreude :(
  - ralph 15y ago
    Rubbish. It was emailed to me by Posterous as I subscribe to the blog, so to lots of others too I'd have thought. I searched Twitter and found many tweets about the hack; the cat's already out of the bag. The View count on the article shows many have read it but I agree further constraint would be worthwhile. I attempted to contact them, it failed due to their error, and the method wouldn't have been urgent enough anyway. Knowing of their connection to news.yc I came here to raise the issue with a crowd that would be sympathetic and would likely know of a means of direct contact. Though by all means up-vote my post. ;-)
- ralph 15y ago
  Thanks John.