Comments on: threatened tribalism

By: Katya Andresen

Katya Andresen — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:56:25 +0000

Thank you for highlighting this situation on your blog, it is an important one. We share your distress at this situation and were in touch with Mickey at MicMac Records right after the link went up. We learned from them that their site had been hacked a few days ago. We made sure that their webmaster deleted these files from their server and, as you noted, the links were taken down. We are constantly monitoring our site to safeguard for anything like this and again we appreciate you notifying your readers. — Katya Andresen, VP, Network for Good If anyone as any concerns, please feel free to email me at Katya.Andresen(at)networkforgood.org

By: Michael Ben-Nes

Michael Ben-Nes — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:12:39 +0000

Currently the domain is parked. Meaning, the owner hope mislead visitors will click on one of the advertisements.

Each click will earn them an average of 2 cents.

I assume the domain is for sale, but I wouldn’t recommend on buying it. It will only encourage that kind of behavior.

[you're right, of course, and I looked to see how thorough the scammers were. I should have mentioned that. but it seemed unlikely anyone would go to the home page of the made-up site, instead just clicking through to the bogus page. But good catch.]

By: John M

John M — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:10:56 +0000

Well done, sir.

By: paul

paul — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:30:32 +0000

surprisingly, no. but I suppose a look at the bogus DONATE page might tell me if networkforgood.org has secured their site.

[update] Looks like the pages are gone from the site that was hosting this junk. No word on what conversations might have played into that. But good news, in any event.

By: John M

John M — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:27:01 +0000

Any feedback from networkforgood or networkforgoods?