Pingback spam is hard to block. Neither my primary nor secondary defenses are geared toward it. If it becomes a problem I’ll disable it completely, but so far it’s just a minor annoyance.

Geek Drivel has been getting attempted new-user registrations at a ridiculous rate recently. All of them (with one notable exception), I’m pretty sure, are automated attempts by spammers to get a user account on here, so that they can bypass some of my spam protections. Or so they hope… only the secondary defense takes a logged-in user into account, and it only gives it minor weight.

Also, this blog software sends me notifications of them before it confirms that they’ve received the password and logged in for the first time. I’m pretty sure that none of those accounts have ever been used.