See, when I saw the Hacker News title for this, my first thought was "Good to know, I'll simply avoid installing Joe Hewitt." Now that I think about it, maybe a blanket policy of not installing people on my computer is a good one. Better just to stick to programs.
His site was indeed hacked recently, and it was harming my computer inasmuch as it was crashing firefox. I consider the google warning to be late but not incorrect.
Here's an email I sent to Joe on 2007-12-17. (It's really hard to make these kinds of messages not look like spam!)
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Hey, I was checking out iui tonight, and your site seems broken.
The front page has JS that does something involving "fredkidns.com" and it repeatedly causes my firefox to fill memory. Kazehakase is able to show the broken page, though.
I think the blog top page is also hacked; other internal pages seem to be ok.
I apologize for the slang use of the word 'hacked' up there.
I meant 'vandalized, probably by means that required deep knowledge of a system to initially develop, although the vandal was unlikely the same person as the hacker who came up with the exploit'.
I asked this a while ago on here because I was wondering if parakey was going to end up integrated into Facebook. A YC founder answered that he didn't think Parakey had gotten very far before the acquisition and that it was a talent acquisition.
