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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.
Its not unusual for me to put strange coded messages in my code I am testing or debugging. I don't think its 'Unprofessional' just a mistake that it made it out onto a production machine.
How else can you entertain yourself while sitting in a 6x8 foot cubicle 8 hours a day.
All Decepticons come to the aid of the prowler!
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
Why can't businesses retain a sense of humor and have a little harmless fun? Especially in this economy, when everyone deserves a break?
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.