12 February, 2008

popularity of "hack blackboard"

I've written a couple of posts about ways I've gotten the top frame of Blackboard to actually brand things in a way that worked for what I wanted. Blackboard doesn't natively support having different branding for the "collapsed" view as opposed to the normal view of the tab frame, and never intended their software to work the way I used it... so that pretty much qualifies as a hack (and I had said something like "our banner hack" in the posts).

Interestingly enough, I was looking at some referrer logs for this site and noticed that permutations of "Blackboard hack" were 3 of the top 5 keyword searches leading people to this site. On a search for the keywords "blackboard hack" this site comes up as the #4 result. Yeesh.

Anyhow, it makes you wonder just how many script-kiddies are out there searching for ways to hack in to Blackboard servers (I didn't see anything worthwhile in a few pages of Google results, so that was interesting all by itself). I guess if there's a point to this it's that security is always going to be important, so keep an eye out. Also, be careful what you name your posts if you don't want unintended visitors, and - if you're here looking for a way to sneak in and change your economics grade, you should click on the banner ad at the top of this page. The answer you're looking for might be there. :)

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