Re: [atlarge-discuss] Hack Report

[Joop Teernstra <terastra@terabytz.co.nz>]

At 10:33 a.m. 3/11/2002 -0800, Bret Fausett wrote:
> Early this morning, Sunday 3 November 2002, the discussion forum of the
> icannatlarge web site was apparently hacked. Most of our discussions have
> moved onto mailing lists, so I have taken the forum off-line until the issue
> can be resolved. I've temporarily put up a replacement page asking
> conversations to move to <atlarge-discuss@lists.fitug.de>.
>
>      http://icannatlarge.com/forum/
>
> To the best of my knowledge, the culprits did not hack the main site or any
> of the static pages. What was compromised was the online web-based
> discussion forum, so I assume a security vulnerability in that particular
> software was exploited.
>
> I apologize if any ongoing conversations on the web-based forum were
> interrupted by this outage. Please move them to this discussion list until
> the forum is again up and running.
This is an outrage, Bret.

How can you tell the members to "move their discussion here", when there 
are not here?

Taking the Forum offline, with its full record of on-going discussions, is 
an act of sabotage.
Can you perhaps be more specific about that "apparent" hacking attempt?
Have you discussed it with the Forum Administrator?
When the site was hacked before, I worked 6 hours to update the Forum 
software and had everything  back on-line within 12 hours.

First after your takeover, you have censored our frontpage.
Both the outspoken "palace coup" quotation of Chuck Costello *and* the 
commitment to provide regular site backups to be held in escrow have 
disappeared.

And now 10Mb of archived Forum discussion, Mission Statement drafts, 
Charter Drafts, polls and everything disappears??

Bring it back on-line without delay.
Please.


--Joop



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