I had prepared a rather long post but decided not to use it. I agree Chrisk I too often wonder why this “sleazy” practice still continues. But in any case I am sure we all know by now who is behind this mess.
In any case I would love post my findings thus far and name the CAP member responsible. This would involve a large part of the industry and would like too see an agressive campaign lauched against all parties involved.
I am finding it very hard trying too remain reserved. I have most of the info needed to launch a retalitory strike. Ricky G an alias for someone else will do it regardless. Ricky G morals come from the old testament “eye for an eye”.
I attended http://xxw.defcon.org/html/defcon-14/dc-14-post.html in August of this year. A convention filled with black hatters, hackers, perhaps the odd cracker. Some of the people I haven’t seen in years. Amongst the many issues discussed was the exploitation of their work. Scripts and programs which takin them years to develope for “open source” being used to exploit the very foundation which they helped design. Most try very hard to restain themselves and practice some sort of hacker ethic. Some of these people work for the major SE’s. Hence the Google clean up takin place right now, such as limiting description tags etc…
Blackhat/seo is a totally different group. They take other people’s hard work, which is free, and exploit it for personal gain. The funny part is that they always think they are so freakin smart nobody will ever find them. But the paradox is the very scripts they build on are scripts designed from the real masters. For many hackers and black hatters this is the worst thing that could happen to their work.
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