January 13, 2005

  • It’s 65 F. out now.  Hey, we’re talking mid-winter in Cleveland, OH. (!)  Yesterday, it was 63 F. when I ran 5+ miles in Dreamland (cemetery).  Because the conditions were so exceptional, I’m making an exception to my own winter-no-display of-self-pic proclamation.


     



     


    Just after sunset, post-run, and perfectly comfortable. (and I’m sweating, too—too much information?!)


     


    Speaking of displays…


     


    xTracker Advisory:


     


    If you use the growingly popular xTracker (xanga logger), be aware that the supposed ‘private module’ display in your xanga of the ‘last visitors’ is NOT private. 


     


    Proof of concept:

    I established an xTracker for an alias named ‘    chocolate’.  On the xTracker Settings page, I made the display module ‘private’ only to chocolate.  That is, if I’m logged in as chocolate, I am supposed to see my last 10 or 20 or whatever number (up to 99) of xanga visitors in a private left-sided module on my xanga, but the rest of you aren’t.  But, in actuality, anyone can see chocolate's supposedly private information here:


     


    http://www.bloggary.com/xtracker.php?xUser=chocolate


     


    (hint: click on chocolate first. Notice that there's no xTracker module display of 'last visitors' on the left-hand side.  Now click the link above to see your xanga-self as chocolate sees it in her private custom module when logged on to her private page)


     


    If you have an xTracker with a private module display, plug your xTracker name in the line above and you’ll see that it, too, isn’t private, after all.


     


    But beyond that, xTracker admits to being hacked constantly.  Besides thus being unreliable, there’s a chance that some hacker could break in and feed up malicious stuff to your xTracker module.  Think of it this way:  Your blog is Troy.  Someone has just gifted you a large private tracking horse and it is in your blogging corral.  Hrmm….


     


    So, if you’re going to use xTracker, at least disable the xTracker Custom Module that plugs into your xanga page and log into it only directly to view your logs.

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