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If you’ve fallen for all the recent hoopla showered upon Blogrush (no, we won’t link to it right here - do yourself a real favor and read this post instead and check out the links we do point you to below), endorsed by the likes of John Reese, John Chow, Yaro Starak and Shoemoney, you may either be devastated or delighted to learn that this pathetically blatant pyramid scheme of a blog link exchange for the mathematically challenged and blog illiterati has been “cracked” from no less than two top notch black hat quarters, enabling you to game it to your heart’s content until the cows come home:

First off, A Blackhat’s Diary features this great exploit: exploiting blogrush, big time.

Then, there’s Black Hat Domainer offering the full PHP code for another autogen gaming solution The Ultimate BlogRush Exploit Guide

First in line chronologically as far as we can discern was actually InternetBabel with How to Exploit Blogrush, an exceedingly simple, unsophisticated but effective solution based on the Firefox refresher.

So is this a bug? Are the sloppy coders to blame? No way, it’s actually a lot more exacerbating than that: This is arguably one of the worst examples of clueless outsourcing we’ve seen in the past ten years or so.

Because it’s systemic: Obviously, some marketing clown thought it would be a great idea to hoodwink the credulous by offering a traffic generation system structured like any old ponzi scheme profiting - whom? You guessed it, those big players who get into it first, just like they always do.

And what’s worse: In their blind link greed they didn’t even bother to hire someone knowledgeable for a project manager to point out what every puny script kiddie could have revealed to them for a sixpack of soda pops - that the entire concept is technically flawed as well.

Hell, have none of these bozos (whoever they actually were) ever heard how to game Alexa? Of CPI spam, dating back right to 1998? This is so incredibly clueless, it makes your eyes water.

Or glint for joy, if you follow any of the nice if not entirely gentle folks listed above who have pointed it out. You’ll owe them thanks for that - and so, incidentally, do the instigators of this stupid scheme: Because sooner or later someone would have called their awful bluff anyway. So now’s the time for all black hats to game this thingy into oblivion - and for the promoting parties to pull in their tails and maybe even mumble an apology or two.

Well, as regards the latter a man’s entitled to some daydreaming, no?

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