mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 21 2008 | prank, images, gallery, rooster, pwned
A couple of years ago, I noticed that an image of a rooster (from a photo I took in Hawaii) was the source of a large amount of my ISP bandwidth on mckoss.com.
I soon found that my image was #2 in Google Image Search for the term "rooster". After looking at my log files, I was able to see what was happening; many young boys wanted to post an image of their "cock" on message boards around the internet (get it? it's really funny if you're about 14). They found my image, and directly linked to the URL on my server.
To retaliate, I just renamed the rooster.jpg to rooster2.jpg - and then replaced the original with this hideous image (leaving my calling card).
Pwned!
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 04 2007 | video, prank, hack, football
click to play"We Suck" prank. HS student suspended(!) for this? He should get a medal.
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- dave - Feb 21 2008
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- mike - Feb 25 2008
You must be Mike's friend before you can comment on this Fave.i must say, that the rooster2 is a damn good picture of a rooster. i can see why it was so far up in the search results.
haha.
Funny.
you might want to look into a more robust hotlinking prevention mechanism aside from re-naming the file. you're going to be back in the same boat pretty soon the next time the indexers crawl and the kiddies update their pages to point to your rooster2.jpg.
i don't know what web server you're using, in Apache you can update .htaccess to help prevent hotlinks without having to rename files, which should take care of most of the non-tech linkers for good.
That's a cool idea - I could send a redirect to a "Don't do this" image when the referrer is not coming from my own domain.
Send Mike a friend request or a personal message instead.