{"id":953,"date":"2009-07-18T08:59:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T15:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=953"},"modified":"2009-07-18T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T15:59:50","slug":"come-to-troy-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/07\/18\/come-to-troy-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"come to Troy moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not 12 hours after having this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/945\">positive experience<\/a>, I get an email from same mass blogging service telling me that a user is now &#8220;following me&#8221; along with the user&#8217;s profile image. Only the user is a spammer and their image is the equivalent of a goatse. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve just been goatse-d at 8:45 am by a spammer and all I did to walk into this trap was to read an email from a trusted correspondent \u2013\u00a0the intermediary. <\/p>\n<p>I understand that the political aspects \u2013\u00a0to see and be seen \u2013\u00a0are key to driving growth and thus reaching a useful scale but there&#8217;s something slightly off with a process that can so easily be hijacked to deliver a Trojan horse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated<\/strong>: there are many clever suggestions from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoptwitterspam.com\/blog\/proposed-solutions\/\">Stop Twitter Spam<\/a> user group. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not 12 hours after having this positive experience, I get an email from same mass blogging service telling me that a user is now &#8220;following me&#8221; along with the user&#8217;s profile image. Only the user is a spammer and their image is the equivalent of a goatse. So I&#8217;ve just been goatse-d at 8:45 am&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}