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My Google Pagerank

May 18

Posted by khensthoth in Internet, Site, Toot! | 3 Comments

Naturally, after a while managing this blog, I was interested to know how my sites was performing. I knew that my Google Pagerank was going to suck, but I wish to check it anyway.

After several frustrating searches on Google, I found a lot of sites that provide this kind of service. Most sites rank me a 0/10, which is fine by my standard. One particular site caught my attention however.

This is copied from the site itself:

Q: What is the hightest Page Rank you can get?

A: PageRank is from 0 – 10, with 10 being the highest number awarded

Please take note of the scaling of 0 – 10. According to their website, WhatTheToot! suck so much that we are really off the chart.

Google Pagerank

We got a -1/10. Yes, www.whatismypagerank.com, we know we suck at the moment. We will be great someday but for the moment could you not insult us with the association of a negative value as our Pagerank?

At the time of writing, we still suck according to them. The picture has not been edited in anyway other than cropping.

We swear to get our revenge someday. We swear.

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“Toot grows huge”

May 13

Posted by khensthoth in Site, Toot! | No Comments

What does the above phrase mean? I have absolutely no idea whatsoever, but I guess that phrase is very important since it is one of the term people, well one person, use Google to find our site. Since then, we have advertise the idea of finding this site using that particular phrase. A few people actually did, and read a lot of our material!

Hi, if you are that person, congratulations! You have won our Find-Our-Site-by-Toot-Grows-Huge contest. The prize? Well, nothing for now. But considering how rare you are in the population, you are truly brilliant for finding out site using the phrase. Congratulations again!

Thus, from time to time now, we will post what people type in their search engine to find our site. We personally think it’s cute and absolutely, we would want our Toot to grows huge as well.

So next time you want to search for enlargement of particular stuff on search engines, but are embarrassed to type the term, just substitute it with Toot. Currently I can imagine enlargement of certain organs search results being routed to our site, which would make our site grows huge.

Remember: Toot grows huge. Enormously huge.

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How I obtain Credit Card numbers from my webhost

May 5

Posted by khensthoth in Technology, Toot! | 3 Comments

In my very first post, I mentioned there will be an interesting story about the webhost I am using. It has been quite a while, and I have decided to share this story although it will touch on some illegal and sensitive issues.

When we first thought of the idea of WhatTheToot.com, it seemed great. We searched for the most value-for-money webhost, and found this. The webhost itself is alright, I haven’t actually have any major problems with them.

I am sure most people who own a domain name and a webhosting account at some point would have known this – They require registration and identity verification. My webhost specifically asked for a scanned copy of proof of identity (such as driver’s license), a scanned copy of the front AND back of the credit card used to pay for the account.

I thought the idea of scanning credit card and sending it to them would be dangerous enough but they specifically asked for the back of the credit card. Since they have LiveChat available, I decided to talk to one of the support staff. I told her I am afraid my security would be compromised and insist I only send her proof of identity and possibly the front copy of the credit card. She said it’s alright and would sort it out for me.

Several hours later, the billing department sent me an email saying they absolutely need a copy of the back of the credit card. I repeated the conversation with at least 4 guys about the same issues to no avail. At last I have decided to give in, and send in whatever they want to get my account ready ASAP.

I have sent several emails containing the attachment, using several different email addresses but still the staff said they never received anything at all. I decided to talk to a guy again. This time, it’s early morning Melbourne time. I spoke to a LiveAssistant called Pete.

After the initial introduction and telling him the product, this is roughly how the conversation goes:
Pete: Please send your attachment to Dot5hosting_04@hotmail.com
Me: Hotmail? Are you sure that’s safe? I am afraid that my security would be compromised.
Pete: It’s safe. Just send them to Dot5hosting_04@hotmail.com
Pete: Then open it with xxxxxxxx (this being a series of characters, obviously a password)
Me: What? I am not sure I understand you. Open with what?
(Long Pause)
Pete: Please call our support line at 1800-blablablabla
Me: I live in Melbourne and I am afraid that it would be expensive.
Pete: Do you have a number we can contact you with?
Me: It’s quite late (early 3 a.m.) and I do not wish to disturb any other housemates.
Pete: Please call 1800-blablablablabla

Frustrated, I quit the LiveChat immediately. Then, I started thinking about the string of characters. I went over to Hotmail and used the email he just gave me as login, and the characters as password. Surprisingly, I got in! Let me repeat that: Pete gave me the password to the email address. I guess he wasn’t paying much attention to what he was saying, or he was talking to another guy, typing in into the LiveChat window and accidentally sent it to me.

What I found inside the account was alarming. I found TWO emails, complete with the credit card information (front and back scan), as well as the proof of identity. This means I can basically use their credit card numbers, or forge their identity to say, withdraw the cash in the bank account linked to the credit card. All these, despite being reassured more than 5 times than “Your security will not be compromised” and “only staff with authentication can access the scanned copies”.

I will not be using or disclosing any credit card information, but just a word of advice, do not trust your webhost completely. I realised a few days later than all the emails sent to their corporate email, i.e. @dot5hosting.com, had bounced back, probably due to system down at that time. That would also explain why they would register a Hotmail account.

To my webhost: Contact me in writing, black and white, and include a formal apology in the letter. Explain the whole situation and what action is taken to solve this problem. Write formal letters of apology to the two person who sent their personal information to that Hotmail account too.

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Site Update

Apr 24

Posted by khensthoth in Site | No Comments

After the recent siblings rivalry event, we have decided that it was time to separate, which is why there are new additions to the site. Toot…, as opposed to WhatTheToot!, is a somehow related blog started by one of the siblings.

I, on the other hand, have decided to stick to posting here for the time being, due to the lack of niche and available time. Should you be bored enough, please visit my temporary site here. Though it contains limited useful information and reviews, the site has since been abandoned, and serve now as a testing bed for me. In the future, I shall transfer the content of that website over to a new subdomain of WhatTheToot!, specifically here.

There are currently things that are on my mind, and for that reason the next few posts of mine are going to target these issues.

P.S.: There never was any rivalry event.

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(The lack of) Updates!

Apr 14

Posted by admin in Site | No Comments

The lack of updates can only mean two things – The Laziness Strikes Back, or we are extremely busy. Currently, it’s a combination of both, but the level of “Goldbricking” far exceeds anything else.

Anyway, here’s what going on in WhatTheToot.com so far. We have a blog, obviously, a web proxy, two web-based photo gallery: phpgraphy and Coppermine. There is no photographs of us in the photo gallery yet, but it *MIGHT* come one day. Feel free to use the web proxy if you insist of compromising your security.

Speaking of security compromise, we do have a story of that. However, that is for another time, for I am still considering to publish it here for some security reasons.

We also have a somewhat vague description and history of the name of this site here. Bear in mind that it is still not complete and we shall continue to update the sites.

At the time of publishing, we still do not have an real homepage. All the contents are mostly concentrated on the links in this post. We also lack a fav.ico. Thus, if your creativity suddenly increase to a point where you feel you are comfortable to provide us with opinions, please leave some comments. Should your increase in generosity couples the sudden increase in creativity, we welcome all submissions, though there are no guarantees that yours would be used.

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