Allen Stern writes about Scribd (a document sharing startup) being filled with pornographic content.
Here is an interesting fact about Scribd: Is so easy to sign up that even a caveman could do it, and there lies the problem. Sites that are this trivial to sign up, that either don't use CAPTCHA or have no email confirmation, can fall pray to "Porn Bots". And no, that is not some kinky fantasy toy.
I don't think the term "Porn Bots" has been coined yet, but the adult industry is an early adopter of any technology that advances their business. Social Media sites are one of their favorite because a lot of them are just plain dumb when dealing with their "smart bots" that automatically create fake accounts, upload content and link back to their sites.
I've seen too many (Web 2.0) services making this kind of mistake. Now I wonder who is laughing more, me without millions with unique users but with CAPTCHA, or them. Ignorance is bliss.
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