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For those who may have a Drupal website/portfolio, one thing to be cautious of,

http://drupal.org/node/314908

A relative of mine does websites, some of them using Drupal, so he forwarded me this. Scary stuff. :)
http://consumerist.com/5056063/perhaps-you-dont-owe-godaddy-6579
"GoDaddy demanded $6,579 from Adam Fendelman after his disk usage skyrocketed to over 250 GB without warning, vastly exceeding his account's 150 GB allowance. GoDaddy's security department launched a "full-scale investigation" and quickly determined that Adam was responsible for both the data binge and the extraordinary bill. Adam refused to let the matter drop...

The massive data splurge was apparently caused by a bug in the widely-used open source website management software Drupal, which, like a cancerous tumor, was unstoppably copying thousands of temporary files into Adam's account."

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