I think those are usually SEO (Search Engine Optimization) bots that go around posting innocuous comments with a link to the thing they want to promote. In other words, spam.
I still think we should turn on the requirement to log into sourceforge before posting to the trackers. It'll prevent that kind of spam.
.hc
On Apr 4, 2012, at 11:44 PM, Jim Hickcox wrote:
I'm sad it's not the first assumption. I would be really interested in a robot crawling around complimenting people. If only I knew how to make one...
2012/4/3 Charles Henry czhenry@gmail.com:
On 4/3/12, András Murányi muranyia@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe it tries to inject javascript for xss (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) or php or mysql to be eventually executed on the server? Or we're just being malicious ;)
András
LOL--I get it now. Probably, sourceforge has some intelligence (more than me) to strip out script tags. When I view the page source, there's no additional text. So, that seems likely--as long as the motivation is to hack websites. Thanks for the explanation.
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