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Kit·blog — Upgrading...

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:15:19 +0200

Regarding the previous post--something was rotten, and the baddies were coming from Mother Russia, admittedly. All the evidence pointed to a compromised 3rd party captcha mechanism, so I wiped it off.

I also moved the blog database to a fresh install of Movable Type 4.2.1--the basic functions are working, but there are some glitches left and a few features unimplemented yet. For instance, the blog roll is missing for now, the comment preview is borked and so on. Sorry about that.

Please bear with me a couple of days until I have a chance to iron out the remaining issues and also please let me know if you encounter anything suspicious. Thank you for your indulgence.

Kit·blog — Posted in Personal.
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Kit·blog — What is this mess?

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:38:38 +0200

So, I've upgraded to Version 3.2 of Safari. The shock came when I tried to access pages from my blog, other than the homepage—I got this instead:

If you landed here using the same version of the browser, you've probably seen that, too.

What's with that russian site? I do not even have a link to that site. Franticly, I started digging to see what's wrong, what has been compromised and how.

In Google Webmaster Tools, the site appears verified, not flagged.

At Badware Website Clearinghouse Kitblog is not listed.

Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic page indicates that this web site is clean:

What is the current listing status for kitblog.com?
This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, kitblog.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

Ok, just as I thought. But... "Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days"? Weird.

Let's try Safe Browsing diagnostic on the very page where Google announces the launch of Safe Browsing diagnostic page:

What is the current listing status for malware.testing.google.test/testing/malware?
Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.

What happened when Google visited this site?
Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days. Suspicious activity was detected over 90 days ago, but no data is available for the past 90 days.

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, malware.testing.google.test/testing/malware did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?
No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

How did this happen?
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.

Again, "Google has not visited this site within the past 90 days." They're not indexing their own blogs? Hard to believe. But—and here it gets really weird—there is more: "Suspicious activity was detected over 90 days ago, but no data is available for the past 90 days"!

Malware on Google's Online Security Blog? Come on! This diagnostic doesn't seem very reliable, does it?

I'm not a web designer, so all this leaves me pretty clueless. Is it a browser bug? A Google bug? How can I verify their claim (I tried LinkScanner and everything came out clean) and make sure it's not a glitch, as it seems to me now? And if their claim does not verify, how should I react?

What is this mess? Help!

UPDATE: All the evidence pointed to the 3rd party captcha mechanism, so I wiped it off and I'll replace it with CMS's own. In order to be able to do that, I moved the blog database to a fresh install of Movable Type 4.2.1—the basic functions are working, but there are some glitches left.

Please bear with me a couple of days until I have a chance to iron out the remaining issues and also please let me know if you encounter anything suspicious. Thank you.

Kit·blog — Posted in Internet.
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O where do we go now but nowhere? [Flickr]

kitone — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:11:21 -0600

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Bistro, Bucharest.

Kit·Blog Notes — Lousy Adobe CS4 installer

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:07:38 +0200

"No matter how good or bad their software actually is, one thing is for sure: Adobe’s engineers appear to be utterly unable to design a proper Mac OS X software installer." Yet another lousy Adobe installer.

Via DF.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Software.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Is graphic design art?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:26:17 +0200

Fuck no!

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Design.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Banking murphism

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:42:32 +0200

"Typical Murphy, after working on at least four design projects concerning banking (finance, to be more precise) in one form or another, after spending days scavanging for related pictures on the internet, after asking friends to risk getting arrested photographing banks while on vacation abroad, it took one random search through Flickr to find the Banking in Photos group."

Iancu.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Design.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Weird indeed

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:39:12 +0200

"Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LPs." LPCoverLover. And yes, some of them are weird, indeed.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Design.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Blog-off

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:31:07 +0200

Design blog 1+1=3 pulls the plug. I always feel sorry when I see good blogs shutting down.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Internet.
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Kit·Blog Notes — iPhone takes US

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:15:27 +0200

"Motorola RAZR, which has long held the title of most popular phone in the US, has been surpassed by the iPhone 3G as the leading handset purchased by adult consumers in the US during the third quarter of 2008" according to the latest data from the NPD Group — ArsTechnica reports.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Apple.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Wrapi-do

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:51:56 +0200

iPod/iPhone Tip — because you should be following the One True Way Of Headphone Wrapping.

Via DF.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Miscellanea.
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Kit·Blog Notes — I'm you father

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:35:57 +0200

Mr. George Lucas and his toys. Quite a playground — quite a history!

Via Kottke.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Zeitgeist.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Tubelog

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:12:35 +0200

"A tubelog is a long, tall web page on which a person called "tubelogger" pastes a YouTube video every now and then."

Fuck Freud.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Quotes.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Witshirts

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:54:53 +0200

Brilliant t-shirts. My favorite — probably Rock Me Amadeus.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Design.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Bucharest map for Mac

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 14:07:36 +0200

BucharestApp is a map rendering of Bucharest based on OpenStreetMap data, with a place finder panel and routing — Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) required.

Via Loudhush.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Bucharest.
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And when she passes, each one she passes goes —Aah [Flickr]

kitone — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 04:47:03 -0600

kitone posted a photo:

Ana, Berlin. Closer.

Kit·Blog Notes — Hired

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:43:07 +0200

The planet is announced that the proper guy got hired for the job.

Thanks, Iancu.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Zeitgeist.
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Kit·Blog Notes — Retro type

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:34:19 +0200

Typography like a tasty, warm, home-made meal.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Design.
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It is the cure that's killing us, you see [Flickr]

kitone — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:15:46 -0600

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Bucharest. Smell.

Kit·Blog Notes — 44

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:09:28 +0200

History, illustrated.

Kit·Blog Notes — Posted in Humor.
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Loving bee, gnome, elf, self, death [Flickr]

kitone — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:40:44 -0600

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Berlin. Walk in.

Then one night in desperation the young man breaks away [Flickr]

kitone — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 04:26:22 -0500

kitone posted a photo:

Vintage car, Prague. Inspect the bokeh.