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Warning: This is a spoof, spam, or malware site

Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006

According to the Compete.com Toolbar, this site (wanderingstan.com) is a pretty dangerous place to hang out.

None of their reasons make any sense. No site history? I’ve been around 5 years. Little member activity? So only popular sites are safe? Geotrust has deemed me to be a spoof spam or malware site? WTF?

A little surfing reveals that quite a few of my favorite sites are also dangerous: ColoradoStartups.com and fabianstelzer.com for starters.

I guess this is the problem of trying to do trust by algorithms. It doesn’t scale. Sorry, Compete.com, but your Trust is broken.

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