Easy fix now for RSS hijacking

Friday December 9, 2005 - 1:36PM EDT

There is this new thing called podjacking to "hijack" RSS feeds. Nothing in your actuall content gets hijacked just how people get there. The technical fix to this is so freaking easy. Agregation or search engine programs are the ones at fault here for not verifying data. Before a link to a RSS feed is added you need to cross reference the link URL with the source tag in one of the RSS channels. That will tell you if the link is the real link to the data. Easy, but I don't think any program out there does that. They can nip this in the bud right now. Actually right now I don't think there is a source tag. Its XML, they can add it and end this problem quickly. There is a tag for a link to the HTML website, they need to make another for the actual RSS feed link. iTUnes could probably literally add this fix in a day but I say a month or so is a decent amount of time. The RSS spec needs to be updated slightly to add something like "linkrss" tag to the required channel tags to elminate this problem completely. I don't know.