You probably haven’t noticed it, (because the filters are doing their job) but this site has been the focus of some persistent spamming over the past week. As I’m sure anyone will tell you, spam, especially comment spam is pretty annoying. As usual most of it is for pharmaceutical products, but what’s interesting is where it’s coming from, Korea. I can’t help but wonder if this has anything to do with the recent trade embargo against North Korea. Anyway, I’m blacklisting the IP space of the offenders, so if you suddenly find yourself having to view my site through Google’s cache, that’s probably why.

In a recent post to her blog, Jennifer Granick remembers the Chernobyl disaster.

“There are many legacies of Chernobyl. One that seems particularly worth remembering today is that a secretive government is a dangerous government.”

I couldn’t agree more.

After reconfiguring some of the AntiSpam features of my blog, and the installation of others I feel relatively comfortable opening up the comments without moderation again. So far the filters seem to be picking up the spam, so we’ll see how it goes.