Attempting to Ward off Cyber Attacks

Since the Antiplanner is vital to national security, I was disturbed to learn that people with .ru domain names have signed up and attempted to take control of this web site. In fact, there are nearly 10,000 .ru users.

A few years ago, I realized that nearly 50,000 users had signed up, and while it is flattering to think that many people were interested in my pearls of wisdom, I was disillusioned to discover that most of them were spammers. At the time I searched in vain for a way to delete those users in bulk without deleting any real users. Instead, I installed a captcha system that supposedly would prevent bots from signing up.

It didn’t do a very good job as the Antiplanner had 156,600 users yesterday. I found a WordPress plug-in that would delete users who have never left a comment, so I tried to use it. It would only let me delete 1,000 at a time, and after deleting 10,000 the system broke down.

Unfortunately, I suspect that it also deleted some real users. If you have been unable to log in, you may have to sign up again as a new user. Please accept my apologies. If anyone is a WordPress expert who can recommend a way to delete spam users, please let me know.

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About The Antiplanner

The Antiplanner is a forester and economist with more than fifty years of experience critiquing government land-use and transportation plans.

One Response to Attempting to Ward off Cyber Attacks

  1. CapitalistRoader says:

    It was this verbiage from yesterday that got the Party’s attention, Comrade O’Toole:

    I find myself increasingly skeptical of the climate-change narrative, not because of the data but because the people promoting it seem more interested in social engineering than in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

    Russia is depending on that narrative to keep Greedy American Capitalist oil producers from producing oil.

    Don’t be the first person to stop clapping.

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