Wednesday, May 8, 2019

Problems with this blog platform

One problem I've noticed is that I can go back to old posts and edit them. You wouldn't think that that would be a problem, but I can see where it might cause one.

Take the last post on Kafka's Metamorphosis for example. It started off as a single paragraph, which I will edit till I am satisfied that I've covered the whole subject. I may have edited it before anyone reads this. I did this in my "good poetry vs. pop music" post. That's good.

If I wanted to commit fraud, however, it would be very easy, and would only take two steps.

Step one is to take an existing blog and change old posts. You can rewrite them to say anything, whether its the exact opposite of what they originally said, or something on a completely different subject. You can take unrelated posts you want to hide and save them as drafts, or cut and paste things from other blogs. The only restriction is that there has to be a post written whatever day you want the new post to be. The reader won't be able to tell.

Step two is to change the name of the blog. You can even change the URL so it shows up as a different blog. The trouble with that idea is that anyone who subscribes to it will immediately see the differences. I, however, have never, as of May, 2019, had a single subscriber. Ten years of blogging and no subscribers. <crickets>

The way attorneys can check this is to subpoena the hosting company to give them copies of changes made to it. Any changes made, especially drastic ones would be obvious if they were all made around the time of, say, a crime committed.