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[telophase]

More information on the LJ community hackers. Short version: Hotmail recycles addresses, hackers gain entry into Hotmail, then gain entry to LJ and change your password and lock you out of your own journal. If you ever used a Hotmail address to sign up for LJ, then go into Email mangement and delete it. It's good practice to go in and clean off your old addresses as well.

ETA; Also? The journals written in Cyrillic that keep friending people? Bots. Nobody's quite sure what they do. I probably don't have to tell you this, but do not friend them back.

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

The thing that prompted me to add the CAPTCHA to non-friend journals was a spambot that posted snippets of other journals and comments that had some sort of relevance to the post which I got into an argument with before I realized it was a bot. I wonder if they're doing that? Following back to the comment bots' LJ pages found one entry in each full of spam links, so I suppose it's to Googlebomb the links?