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Authored by: Anonymous (Anonymous User) on Saturday, April 26 2003 @ 07:12 pm EDT

The points made below are very valid.
From my own perspective, I run a competitive business and don't want to advertise any advantages to my competition.
A far more serious problem stems from the very reason that I am currently changing my Nuke sites over to Geeklog, that is that my sites (www.martialartsnews.co.uk and www.shop-for-gifts.co.uk) keep getting hacked ($£%^%).
One of the reasons for this is that it is easy for hackers to search for specific details to bring back all the nuke sites in the results.
I really do not want to make things any easier for them than I have to.
I know that GL is far more secure than Nuke etc etc, however one of the reasons that Nuke is attacked so often is that it is high profile, and I'll bet that when GL becomes as popular, it too will be under greater scrutiny from hackers.
PS.
I beleive the best way to deal with hackers is to kick the crap out of anyone you meet who boasts about it, make sure to leave thier fingers in tact and tell them to message all thier buddies and let them know they aren't safe behind thier monitors, after all if none of them had anyone to boast to they'd get very bored with it.
If anyone believes that hackers are performing a service by pointing out vulnerabilities don't worry cos when you kick him in the nuts you can tell him it was to highlight the fact that his groin wasn't properly protected.

If anyone wants to let me know how to remove the powered by footer feel free to let me know, or better still if you know of a solution that will allow me to link to the creators without giving info away to hackers or competition, I'm all ears.

Thanks to the writers and contributors

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Authored by: rawdata on Saturday, April 26 2003 @ 10:57 pm EDT

Geeklog uses templates. There's still some html in the code, but the majority of it is in the templates. They are located in theme directories under /public_html/layout. The template file names are pretty descriptive to which they apply. The power by is located in footer.thtml and should look something like this (taken from the clean theme):

<span class="copyRight">{copyright_notice}<P><a href="{geeklog_url}"><img src="{layout_url}/images/buttons/geekpower2.gif" alt="{powered_by}" border="0"></a></span>

In this one, the part from <P> to </a> is the power by. This one happens to be a button. Some of the others use text instead.

I think hackers probably use search engines to find their victims. You can include yet hide the powered by info by putting it in a metatag in header.thtml like this: <meta name="generator" content="Geeklog">

or in a comment which can go anywhere like this: 

or on a separate credit page and use a robots metatag to ban indexing of that particular page like this:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"> or use robots.txt to ban indexing of the page instead.

If the keyword Geeklog was entered in a search engine, your site would not show up if you used any of these methods. If you post your domain on this site though, then it very well could at least temporarily until it's buried by other data.

As for your competitors, if they physically look at your pages including the source it would be tough to hide a link from them. You could display it only for logged in people but if they signed up they would see it. If your competitors are say all English speaking, then you could always display it in a different language. Maybe one of those who use a non-Latin based language would be willing to do up a small button saying Geeklog in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Persian, or whatever. Most westerners don't understand and can't translate their character sets, and I think it would look kinda cool.

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