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Citation
Elie Bursztein, Baptiste Gourdin, John C. Mitchell. "Reclaiming the Blogosphere, TalkBack: A Secure LinkBack Protocol for Weblogs". Proceedings of the 16th European conference on Research in computer security, pp.133-149, 2011.

Abstract
A LinkBack is a mechanism for bloggers to obtain automatic notifications when other bloggers link to their posts. LinkBacks are an important pillar of the blogosphere because they allows blog posts to cross-reference each other. Over the last few years, spammers have consistently tried to abuse LinkBack mechanisms as they provide an automated way to inject spam into blogs. A recent study shows that a single blog may receive tens of thousands of spam LinkBack notifications per day. Therefore, there is a great need to develop defenses to protect the blogosphere from spammer abuses. To address this issue, we introduce TalkBack, a secure LinkBack mechanism. While previous methods attempt to detecting LinkBack spam using content analysis, TalkBack uses distributed authentication and rate limiting to prevents spammers from posting LinkBack notifications.

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  Elie Bursztein, Baptiste Gourdin, John C. Mitchell. <a
  href="http://www.truststc.org/pubs/892.html"
  >Reclaiming the Blogosphere, TalkBack: A Secure LinkBack
  Protocol for Weblogs</a>, Proceedings of the 16th
  European conference on Research in computer security,
  pp.133-149, 2011.

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  Elie Bursztein, Baptiste Gourdin, John C. Mitchell.
  "Reclaiming the Blogosphere, TalkBack: A Secure
  LinkBack Protocol for Weblogs". Proceedings of the 16th
  European conference on Research in computer security,
  pp.133-149, 2011.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{BurszteinGourdinMitchell11_ReclaimingBlogosphereTalkBackSecureLinkBackProtocol,
      author = {Elie Bursztein and Baptiste Gourdin and John C.
                Mitchell},
      title = {Reclaiming the Blogosphere, TalkBack: A Secure
                LinkBack Protocol for Weblogs},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th European conference on
                Research in computer security},
      pages = {pp.133-149},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {A LinkBack is a mechanism for bloggers to obtain
                automatic notifications when other bloggers link
                to their posts. LinkBacks are an important pillar
                of the blogosphere because they allows blog posts
                to cross-reference each other. Over the last few
                years, spammers have consistently tried to abuse
                LinkBack mechanisms as they provide an automated
                way to inject spam into blogs. A recent study
                shows that a single blog may receive tens of
                thousands of spam LinkBack notifications per day.
                Therefore, there is a great need to develop
                defenses to protect the blogosphere from spammer
                abuses. To address this issue, we introduce
                TalkBack, a secure LinkBack mechanism. While
                previous methods attempt to detecting LinkBack
                spam using content analysis, TalkBack uses
                distributed authentication and rate limiting to
                prevents spammers from posting LinkBack
                notifications.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/892.html}
  }
  

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