The Podjacker Threat

Schlemphfer writes "As everyone knows by now, podcasting has taken off in a big way. But over the past week, several tech journals and The Daily Source Code have reported on the threat of 'podjacking,' the creation of an alternate RSS feed without the consent of the podcast's owner. I'm the host of a podcast, which has the dubious distinction of being the first widely-publicized victim of a podjacking. To teach others from my experiences I have posted an article entitled Preventing and Surviving a Podjacking (also available in PDF). So far this story has attracted widespread but generally inept media and blogger coverage. This article sets the record straight on what really happened, and shows the simple steps every podcaster should take to protect their shows from podjacking."

Comments

Ho Hum...

[Ruff_ilb]

This isn't that interesting to me. This reminds me of issues with web-pages being hacked or redirected to another site, or links hacked to goatse instead of a family photo album; this just seems to be the next iiteration of annoying attacks. I'm sure the guide is useful, but this shouldn't be some new big deal.

Also - ok, it's just a podcast, and they link to like, explicit racist music or music ripped off of a porn movie, or just annoying ranting of some random hacker. This doesn't seem to be too dire of an issue.

Re:Apple?

[muuh-gnu]

> Apple has nothing to do with this story, so I don't see why it's filed in the Apple category. Apple did not invent
> podcasting; they were even late adopters of it.

Of course it has. The Apple fanboy who "invented" podcasting, named it so to show off his fetish for Apple brands. Since something is reckognized mostly on its name, and history tends to be forgotten, Apple now practically both "owns" podcasting, and will be portraited as heving invented it, since its their product which is in the name, and, as this werent enough, it's the only portable player that gets mentioned every single time "podcasting" makes a story.