Additional Details on the Disabled Features
Earlier today, FriendFeed emailed me with a report on multiple comments with the same content coming from multiple users and it had been tracked back to Gridjit’s IP address.
I immediately shut off all of the interactive services as a precaution so I could perform an extensive security audit. After a day’s worth of research, I have figured out what happened and it wasn’t a security issue. It was a bug in the code that caused the multiple posts based on certain query patterns.
I apologize for this issue and I am taking steps to prevent this sort of thing from happening again.
On a positive note, I had the opportunity to dramatically improve the security and auditing functions of Gridjit. I’m in the process of working with FriendFeed to get Gridjit’s API access restored and hopefully all will be back to normal sometime tomorrow.
I’ve contacted all of the users who I know were affected to let them know what happened. Apologies again.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:39 am
Not a big deal, Ray… excellent to see that you are proactive and communicating these issues to users. We appreciate that!
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:53 am
Thanks for the email update on what happened Ray. Very much appreciated and as Ivan says no biggie. Hey that’s what alpha/beta testing is all about
July 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 am
Thanks Ivan and Jon. I appreciate your understanding and patience.
July 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
Thnx for the update, that’s the way to do it.