Matt Cutts replies about his fake MyBlogLog account

Here’s Matt’s reply to my post yesterday about the MyBlogLog exploit that he was so obviously involved in

My reaction? Meh. Cause the joke is on you, Google Tutor. When you claimed authorship of my blog community on MyBlogLog, it wasn’t me who owned it in the first place. Someone else signed up and claimed to be me, so this 100+ person community isn’t mine! That’s right, you just claimed a community that someone else faked. Who’s laughing now, eh?

I just dropped a reply in the comments over there, but just in case it doesn’t get through (btw, what does 2+4=?), I thought I’d post it here too — I’m still laughing Matty, check the original post, I called that guy a poser right from the start!

Come on, if it was actually your blog, do you really think I would have mentioned the hole?

Truthfully, this doesn’t bother me that much. MyBlogLog was clearly shooting to get big quickly, so it seems like they skimped on some of the authentication stuff in order to be lighter weight and get more sign-ups quickly.

Yup, I agree. The problem is though, there’s just a bit too much of this going on for many of us. MyBlogLog is a really cool service attracting all kinds of people, they need to know their accounts are safe.

MBL can grow as big as they want as fast as they want after they fix these problems.

See Matt’s full reply here.