The times call for a 180

During a one-hour period yesterday, someone's botnet planted about 100 bogus TrackBacks here, connected to a whole link farm full of Yahoo! 360 blogs which were probably created by a botnet.

Not that I'd tell you to ban everything incoming that mentions Yahoo! 360, but until such time as they can come up with some semblance of security — don't hold your breath — you might want to think twice about anything that shows up with their domain on it. (I did leave them a nastygram, which so far has garnered only an autoresponse.)

Update, 9:30 am: Yahoo! responds:

Their definition of "appropriate" probably differs from mine — I doubt that broadswords even occurred to them — but I suppose we can consider this matter closed for now.