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Update on the blog glitch — 16 Comments

  1. Hello in there… my user name and email address are correct, at least right now. Sorry for all your troubles, and there is no need for you to apologize to me or anyone else for be hacked by Putin.

  2. Thanks Neo
    Your dogged persistence to run a quality show is just one of the attractions here.
    But free donuts would be a nice additions too.

  3. I have no idea what gender Cornhead is, but from here it looks like I am he/she.
    -Uffdaphil

  4. Ok, this is weird…. the home page lists 5 comments, but right the only comment I see is the one I made at 3:14.

  5. Name and mail fill in with previous commenter. I tried to put in mine- will I succeed?
    No preview possible.

  6. My autofill showed up as huxley (even after a refresh).

    Also, there’s no “Preview Comment” button.

    My theory is the new version of WordPress software introduced this bug. If so, the only ways to fix it are:
    1) WordPress fixes the bug and sends a patch, or
    2) Your host un-installs this and re-installs the older version of WordPress.

  7. The Other Gary:

    Agreed on the cause. But WordPress is difficult to impossible to reach, and the host is unable to go back to a previous version.

  8. Thanks for your efforts on our behalf, Neo. It all sounds exhausting and frustrating.

    Right now, I’m showing up as me, all nice and normal. Earlier this evening my autofill spaces were blank.

  9. Question I have which may or may not have anything to do with this glitch is why do I see different things on your site when on my laptop vs my iPad? Number of comments vastly different sometimes.

  10. Now my autofill is blanks. Better than leaking emails. Preview button comes and goes.

    I trust readers here are suitably cynical about software. It is not created by noble Star Trek intellects seeking to improve the world one line of code at a time, but by entirely human guys, often under ferocious deadlines, working for money and ego, and vulnerable to cutting a corner to get something out the door. Me too.

    This WordPress bug is most likely something stupid.

    Perhaps you remember the Heartbleed bug from three years ago in which OpenSSL — a key internet security package no less — was leaking passwords to any hacker who understood how to exploit the weakness.

    Heartbleed was the work of a Computer Science Ph.D who specialized in internet security. Which is to say, he wasn’t a run-of-the-mill coder who happened to screw up. He was an authority who really should have known better. His work was reviewed by a cryptography consultant with a Ph.D in math — not the right guy to check for coding errors.

    Every programmer makes mistakes. That goes without saying. But Heartbleed wasn’t a mistake so much as a failure in programming discipline — like a surgeon failing to wash his hands before operating.

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