For the past several months, there has a concerted effort to attack the blog with spam posts. These posts were solicitations to various sites for various purposes. The number of these assaults became so prolific, that commenting to posts had to be filtered.
The spam continued but was deleted before they appeared on the blog.
It appears that this effort to degrade the blog is not just a hacker but someone intent on shutting down taxpayer discussion on issues.
The person has broken into the oleytaxpayers e-mail account and proceeded to sent out e-mail under the Oley Concerned Citizens name.
If you received an e-mail from "Oley Concerned Citizen" telling you to go to another site, do not click the link and do not open any attachments but forward to oleytaxpayers@hotmail.com
If you continue to receive these bogus e-mails, forward these to me as well.
Our adversaries want to shut us down. It will not happen.
Steps are being taken to remedy the situation.
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They might shut us down but they will never shut us up.
At part of the process of enhancing security to the blog, word verification has been added.
People who wish to comment on posts will be asked to type the letters that appear on the screen.
This is to prevent automated programs from spamming comments to posts.
Last nights national elections show people are tired of big government and high taxes.
Time to elect local and state candidates who will fight for the taxpayers not special interest groups.
Blog Update:
The additional security measures have been implemented on the blog.
It will be more difficult for robots to post. If per chance they do get through, posts will be monitored.
Most of the problems originated overseas. Russia, the former Eastern block, and parts of Africa are notorious for hackers and spammers.
The Russians are so brazen, they even pose for pictures.
I ran across an international group that will sell blogs to individuals who can use them for spamming and other pursuits.
Their members reside in the United States and throughout the world.
These computer savy hackers can shut down or penetrate just about any blog or system.
They usually focus on very large sites that present a challenge or financial rewards.
All this background begs the question why a blog in Oley, Pennsylvania has been singled out and attacked.
In politics, there is no coincidence.
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