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Misconfigured Webserver, Threats to Call FBI

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-in-a-morning's-work dept.

the_harlequin writes "The Register is reporting that a city manager threatened to call the FBI over a misconfigured webserver. From the article: "The heartland turned vicious this week when an Oklahoma town threatened to call in the FBI because its web site was hacked by Linux maker CentOS. Problem is CentOS didn't hack Tuttle's web site at all. The city's hosting provider had simply botched a web server." "

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  1. "I welcome this publicity" by gbulmash · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Funniest bit is where the city manager says: "I have no fear of the media, in fact I welcome this publicity."

    After reading through the exchange on the CentOS site, I think he's going to regret making that statement. Normally, a dunderhead bureaucrat like this would try to sue or claim these e-mails shouldn't have been made public, but with this little statement on file...

    I'd call the guy a "dumbass", but he's not necessarily stupid, just ignorant and bullheaded. Of course, ignorant and bullheaded do a very good impersonation of stupid when combined.

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  2. Charge the city for technical support by smelroy · · Score: 4, Interesting

    CentOS should send the city a bill for their tech support time. After all, they wasted the time of a primary developer whose time could be spent much better. Of course the chance of the bill getting paid is slim to none but it is the thought that counts, right? I hope Johnny Hughes found the man's ignorance as funny as I do and was not overly annoyed with the knucklehead.

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  3. Re:Interesting study on incompetence by jnik · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In a Gaussian distribution (which is true of most human characteristics), the three averages are the same number, so it is impossible for a significant majority to be above any average.

  4. Re:!!!!~11111!!! by DrSkwid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Call it what you like, but the paper was published in 1999 by the American Psychological Association

    http://www.phule.net/mirrors/unskilled-and-unaware .html

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  5. Also happens on the web daemon side by Khopesh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The thttpd (a lightweight Apache alternative) author has a similar story, but with more stupidity involved (see email history in link): thttpd author's "Attack of the Repo Men"

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