one attack post from “Franky” on a blog called Wisdump
I noticed it was loading a little slow, then I saw
pingomatic.com in my address bar.
I looked at his source and saw he had embedded a 1×1 pixel iframe loading the ping page for Ping-O-Matic on every one of his pages.
I must admit this is clever,
it utilizes the distributed network of everyone who visits your site to attack Ping-O-Matic and spam the ping servers,
and of course IP blocking is useless because it’s coming from the regular folks on your site.
I feel a little different in that you guys also have all financial benefited being you embed your own links with the default install of wordpress.
The purpose of the blogroll was to provide some friendly defaults to introduce people to the concept of editing the sidebar on the links page.
I don’t want to mix people who volunteered their time to create free and open source software for the world with the guys promoting casino sites.