This morning, shortly after 9:00, Duckpond (the server that hosts this site, among others) decided to start sending assloads of spam. I spent a frantic hour looking over logs, checking for security breaches and the like, and generally panicking like a headless chicken. Or duck, if you prefer.

And then I found the culprit. (I’d have found it sooner if I’d read the headers on the spam messages more closely to begin with, of course.) For some reason I can’t even remember anymore, I had a PHP “formmail” script laying around on the server. Someone found it and abused the living shit out of it, mostly to spam AOL addresses. How nice.

I’m going to go turn in my Geek Membership Card now, as I have clearly forfeited any credibility I might once have had.

Stupid. Stupid stupid stupid. Stupid. Ladies and gentlemen, I am the April Fool.