Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com

From	Ed Mullen <ejEVOMER@edmullen.net>
Newsgroups	comp.misc, alt.hypertext, comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html
Subject	Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com
Date	2014-06-25 10:49 -0400
Organization	Altopia Corp. - Usenet Access - www.altopia.com
Message-ID	<7kbd40.8kb.17.1@news.alt.net> (permalink)
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Rhino pounded out :
> On 2014-06-23 7:03 PM, Eli the Bearded wrote:
>> In comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html, Paul Sture  <nospam@sture.ch>
>> wrote:
>>> My current grouse is the increasing number of websites who are loading
>>> ajax.googleapis.com.  It strikes me as not just a single point of
>>> failure
>>> (my internet connection comes and goes at the best of times) but a prime
>>> target for a MITM attack via DNS poisoning/kidnapping.
>>
>> Today, at arstechnica:
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/syrian-electronic-army-targets-reuters-again-but-ad-network-provided-the-leak/
>>
>>
>> The final two paragraphs of the article is most pertinant here:
>>
>>       "By compromising Taboola, the value of the compromise is
>>       significantly higher than just compromising Reuters," Jacobs wrote.
>>       "Taboola has 350 million unique users and has partnerships with the
>>       world's biggest news sites including Yahoo!, the BBC, FoxNews, the
>>       New York Times... Any of Taboola's clients can be compromised
>>       anytime now."
>>
>>       Jacobs reminds us that the security of any site using third-party
>>       analytics or advertising networks is simply reliant on "the weakest
>>       of those," and he reports that Reuters employs 30-plus such
>>       services. For protection, Jacobs recommends that users block
>>       advertising and analytics websites with browser extensions (he
>>       recommends Disconnect) and that sysadmins both minimize third-party
>>       services and enable two-factor authentication as a direct
>>       anti-phishing measure.
>>
>> Off-hand, I'd bet against a lot of companies falling to hacker
>> compromise before Google falls, but that still doesn't protect against
>> all attacks. If you wanted to reach the most machines with a single
>> DNS change, www.google-analytics.com would be a good target.
>>
>> Elijah
>> ------
>> why do so many people want google to know how much traffic they get?
>>
>>
> I don't think anyone particularly wants Google to know how much traffic
> they get; I think site owners just want something that THEY can use to
> determine what traffic they are getting.
>
> What tools would you suggest for people who want to know about their
> traffic that doesn't give the information to anyone but the webmaster
> for the site?
>

My hosting company has a wide variety of site reports available for 
free.  I would think that most others do too.

-- 
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
Is it my imagination, or do buffalo wings taste like chicken?

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motherfuckingwebsite.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-23 12:26 +0000
  Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-06-23 10:11 -0500
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-23 16:13 +0000
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2014-06-23 19:34 +0100
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-23 22:09 +0000
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-06-23 19:49 +0100
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-23 19:38 +0000
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-06-24 03:23 -0500
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-06-24 21:08 +0100
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2014-06-23 20:00 +0100
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-06-24 21:35 +0200
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2014-06-24 21:46 +0100
          Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 22:06 +0000
            Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2014-06-24 23:24 +0100
              Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 23:58 +0000
                Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-06-25 12:03 +0200
                Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-25 10:19 +0000
                Buzzfeed Cookie Monster (was Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com) RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-25 15:16 +0000
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-06-25 06:17 -0500
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-25 14:38 +0300
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrian <bulleid@ku.gro.lioff> - 2014-06-25 21:03 +0100
  Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2014-06-23 17:21 -0300
  Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-23 22:22 +0200
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-24 08:22 +1000
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-27 13:44 +0200
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-06-28 09:58 +1000
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2014-06-23 23:03 +0000
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2014-06-24 09:59 -0400
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-24 15:12 +0000
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-06-24 17:50 +0000
          Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2014-06-24 22:52 -0400
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2014-06-24 21:37 +0200
          Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-06-24 16:08 -0500
            Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-27 13:47 +0200
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-25 05:37 +0000
          Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2014-06-25 08:05 -0400
            Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-25 12:24 +0000
              Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2014-06-25 09:27 -0400
                Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-06-25 16:53 +0300
                Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-25 15:36 +0000
              Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-06-27 13:59 +0200
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Ed Mullen <ejEVOMER@edmullen.net> - 2014-06-25 10:49 -0400
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Ed Mullen <ejEVOMER@edmullen.net> - 2014-06-23 21:03 -0400
  Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Peter Percival <peterxpercival@hotmail.com> - 2014-06-24 16:12 +0100
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Rhino <no_offline_contact_please@example.com> - 2014-06-24 11:23 -0400
  Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Johny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2014-06-25 14:28 +0100
  Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-25 15:42 +0000
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-06-25 12:06 -0400
      Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-26 23:44 +0000
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-26 20:01 -0700
        Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-06-27 12:07 -0400
          Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-27 23:07 +0000
            Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Ed Mullen <ejEVOMER@edmullen.net> - 2014-06-28 19:14 -0400
              Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-07-01 20:43 +0000
                Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2014-07-15 14:45 +0100
          Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com Bob Eager <news0002@eager.cx> - 2014-06-28 20:44 +0000
    Re: motherfuckingwebsite.com RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-06-26 07:14 +0000

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