Comments on: BlogBackupOnline Should Be Banned!

By: nettim

nettim — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:26:49 +0000

Yes, the www.blogbackuponline.com have nobody to registering it now. The domain name is keeping for sale. But I want to know the real reason about closure story of that web site, since the story you have provided is a side effect result.

On the other hand, bloggers are waiting for a perfect blog site backup/restore solution too. I think bloggers are hope to see a company can really provide the solution under a trusted realationship with blog service providers. It may avoid "mirroring" ghost sites appears.

By: shvtrix

shvtrix — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:09:00 +0000

hey i think they are not operational now,

By: Alex Leonard

Alex Leonard — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:03:33 +0000

Em. Is it just me or is this not scary whatsoever..

There’s a multitude of tools out there for scraping data from websites. You’re entire site is online, there’s no way to prevent people from grabbing your data if they want it.

What about archive.org, or eh, Google, cached versions of pages etc etc.

Ever seen “Happy Harvester”. I don’t think there’s any point trying to fight against these things cause there is so many of them out there, and one way or another, your data is out there.

If you’re really concerned there are services for checking whether your content is being used by someone else. These services will let you know when someone else posts the same content and you can then contact them and request the content be taken down.

By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:05:54 +0000

Hi!. I’m scary because i’ve registered in this page. I’d like to know if the “delete option” in that site is secure. I mean (my english is very bad…i’m spanish, sorry) I want to cancel my membership and i’ve thinked that the best way is using the delete option. Is it going to erase my blog with its all content…or it’s only to delete my backups in this page (blogbackuponline)?.

Sorry for my english again. I hope that you can understand me. I wait for your reply.

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By: Alexander Rose

Alexander Rose — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:44:51 +0000

DP uses IP-tracking, so the only way you got banned is if you have 2+ accounts registered by the same IP, perhaps you use an internet cafe or something? Anyway, this service for backing up blogs is awful and should be banned. Hey, I’m going to steal Google’s blog and sell it fox $WXYZ!

By: Haris

Haris — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:48:44 +0000

@Mathias: Who?

By: Mathias

Mathias — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:52:27 +0000

Says more about the person offering the backup for sale…

By: Fahad

Fahad — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:41:38 +0000

Wow, I never knew about this flaw in blogbackuponline. I use it for backups for my own blog as well. Their service is good, but yea there definitely needs to be a security mechanism for this type of incident to not happen again.

By: Hassan Abbas

Hassan Abbas — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:16:26 +0000

my goodness, never think abt it. thx for sharing ur experience

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 03:02:03 +0000

that’s horrible. i’ve never used it so i don’t worry but wow. that is fucked up!

By: abdul

abdul — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 13:15:06 +0000

maybe its out to warez?

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By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 20:03:51 +0000

I can understand your concerns, but for once, your paranoia is unfounded. There are plugins to import posts from a WP blog, and these are modified and used by spammers to create the posts like ” Hey here’s an interesting reading, [post excerpt]…”.

So, spammers will always do the bad stuff, and this service is just helping them offer a choice.

Still, it is easy for the service to add an authentication step like technorati’s blog claim.

I would not be very surprised if someone sued them for damage and they were taken down.

By: Haris

Haris — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:15:42 +0000

@Satya: Buddy, I never made multiple accounts (before I got banned) lol. That’s the only thing I don’t understand. Why did I got banned?!

By: Haris

Haris — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:52:24 +0000

Thank you all for the stumbles. Really appreciated that. I would like each one of you to post about BBO on your blog, and let your blog readers know about them.

And thanks once again for spreading the news!

By: taggy

taggy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:02:44 +0000

cant the blog owners block backuponline by IP ?
atleast for hosted wp

By: silki

silki — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 11:29:30 +0000

This is horrible.
This needs to be highlighted.

So I stumble it.

By: satya narayan

satya narayan — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:22:12 +0000

Really they are abetting crimes like database theft & should/can be sued if you live in USA or some places with strict cyberlaws. I just read that thread & found you banned. I feel sorry but you should not have created multiple accounts. Anyways no one would buy that. Also I’ve linked this post there.

By: Gerard McGarry

Gerard McGarry — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:11:46 +0000

Yikes, that’s a creepy technique. I mean, why wouldn’t they insist on providing authentication that the person doing the backup is the blog owner?

Without that, they’ve just made scraping of sites so much easier.

By: NasirJumani

NasirJumani — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:49:17 +0000

They should make a system like other services in web. One can only backup a blog which is owned by him. I am amazed that even a newbie like me can tell the right steps to authenticate then how they can’t think abt it?? This is ridiculous :x

By: Davinder

Davinder — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 08:22:29 +0000

This is really scary.. but Haris why did you use such service. Man backup your blog from phpadmin or configure plugin to do automatic backup.

Anyway, very good that you blogged about this blogbackup service which has lot of loopholes… be cautious!!!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:20:23 +0000

Look, as long as you have RSS feeds then your content can be stored elsewhere. Scraper sites do this all the time. No one in their right minds would buy a backup of a blog database. Even if they did and set up a blog with that ‘database’, then search engines would recognise the duplicate content.

By: Dj Flush

Dj Flush — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 20:15:23 +0000

Really thoughtful and well researched post

I am sure no one uses BlogBackUp so its better they should shut their service or develop some authentication system fast

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:12:45 +0000

Wow! That is definitely screwed up. Good thing you wrote about it buddy. Stumbled.

By: Keshav Khera

Keshav Khera — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:42:21 +0000

OMG!
This is really scary :eek: they should have a mechanism of adding a code to the blog source or adding a temporary post so that it is confirmed that the blog we are backing up is are own. Stumbled

By: kanak

kanak — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:54:27 +0000

IE7 gives me a website certificate error . I am not able to visit this site… I wonder how come something like this can happen ? Without any security check how can someone be allowed to backup your blog. IS this a wordpress security loophole ????

By: Haris

Haris — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:10:49 +0000

@ReviewSaurus: Thanks for the stumble buddy! I want all the bloggers to know about this.

@Shankar: You’re welcome! :D

By: Shankar Ganesh

Shankar Ganesh — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:38:37 +0000

Well, you wrote about it. Much appreciated :)

By: ReviewSaurus

ReviewSaurus — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:04:12 +0000

Wow! that’s bad! I’m glad that you got saved just at the right time. The guys at DP suck big time. This blog post should be given all the publicity and for that stumbled!

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:44:57 +0000

This is scary, how can anyone backup others blog. I agree with Keith, there should be some way to check whether the backup person is truly the owner.

By: roffi

roffi — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:50:01 +0000

i certainly don’t want it to happen to me.

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:33:38 +0000

This is really pathetic and scary they should atleast verify the site they are backing up with their owners. They definitely have to change or else so many bloggers will start to have problems

By: Madhur Kapoor

Madhur Kapoor — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:33:22 +0000

I agree with you.This is scary . The site should have a security mechanism through which a people can only make backup of his own blog.