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Decepticons Are NOT Attacking the .US Registry
An Anonymous Coward writes "According to this story in the Washington Post, NeuLevel, the operator of DotUS and DotBiz, has issued a clarification that the Decepticon transformers were *not* attacking their webservers, despite their previous claims to the contrary." It's good to know that .us is in such good hands.
Hell, last I checked, Mindspring's DNS servers were Itchy and Scratchy.
No comment.
Not trying to rant or troll or anything. It just makes me kind of laugh. That's all.
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It's actually worse. It's more like, "We know that there's a certain group of people/characters that don't exist, and fortunately there not doing anything.". :^)
Well, that's exactly what I got out of this. Judging by the number of posts in this submission, I'd say that most people don't care for this kind of news.
Not trying to rant, or complain. Please don't mod me down.
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I had the *exact* same thing happen to me. I am the web developer for subaruparts.com. I have one function to connect to the database that is used universally throughout the site that happens to generate a particualar error message when the database cannot be found. When the database server goes offline most pages will say something like "Mr. Database was killed by Colonel Mustard in the Study with the Knife." It randomly picks the items in clue when generating the message. I thought it was funny at the time.
Well, Last week some meat-headed security camera techs managed to unplug my database THREE times (twice by network, once by power) while installing some equipment. All the visitors saw the message and thought we had been haxx0red. I had to go visit a bunch of car boards and explain that we hadn't been breeched.
I don't really mind double posts on
it must've been that wench Circuit Breaker.
Even Prowl can be wrong, sometimes.
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What, exactly, does this have to do with My Rights Online? Ooh, a registrar screwed up. People make mistakes. What a shock.
Just to put things into perspective, the editors here can't work out correct spelling and grammar, got their production site hacked by (gasp!) by making a test server accessible to the general 'net public. And that's not even dipping into the other problems here, such as (meta-)moderation abuse, bitchslaps, editor moderations, etc. Michael, you have absolutely no right to say what you said.
And what an ironic twist that this article was posted "from the competence-not-required dept." Thanks for making that clear.
Yeah, go ahead and mod me down now.
it must've been that wench Circuit Breaker.
Congrats, you get the "obscure pop-culture reference of the day" award. :-)
Why can't businesses retain a sense of humor and have a little harmless fun? Especially in this economy, when everyone deserves a break?
They're too busy moderating on Slashdot.
Then fire their lazy asses!
But they ARE attacking a pizza in the server room.
Insert your line here:
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
Some NeuLevel customers who viewed the notice concluded that the company's sites had been vandalized by attackers.
But as it turns out it was just a publicity stunt to try to get people to care about the .us registry. "Hey, we got on slashdot, that's an accomplishment" beamed a reputable NeuLevel employee who wished to remain anonymous.
Not to mention the fact that the people who did that "unprofessionalism" probably were not paid too "professional" a salary to begin with!
Judging by the number of posts in this submission, I'd say that most people don't care for this kind of news.
Too bad, it probably should have been filed under the humor category, or at least described better in the post. I think more people would have found it funny/interesting and probably would have a bunch of similar stories to share.
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Perhaps their sites WERE hacked, but because the defacement page wasnt an obvious "j0u g0t 0wn3d bY mR l4m3" type site, theyre trying to deny it was hacked and claim it was all just an accident.
Afterall, what are the chances of a production webserver for multiple domains being replaced by accident? swapping the servers over would take a certain amount of work, with the particular goal in mind...
And if the swapping over was truly a quick accident, then surely it would have been swapped back very quickly too, instead of the several hours of downtime they seem to have experienced after the event, this seems like time spent cleaning up cracking-related mess.
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That's really just a 'sound bite', the original quote was (in the voice of Comic Book Guy):
"Even if this was just an in-house configuration error, that's still very unprofessional. It's just pretty lame. I mean, anybody who's anybody would use 'Hulk' for their main server and 'The_Flash' for their web server, denoting both power, and unrivaled quickness."
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