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Hacker Destroys Avsim.com, Along With Its Backups
el americano writes "Flight Simulator community website Avsim has experienced a total data loss after both of their online servers were hacked. The site's founder, Tom Allensworth, explained why 13 years of community developed terrains, skins, and mods will not be restored from backups: 'Some have asked whether or not we had back ups. Yes, we dutifully backed up our servers every day. Unfortunately, we backed up the servers between our two servers. The hacker took out both servers, destroying our ability to use one or the other back up to remedy the situation.'"
How about we just shoot all hackers?
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
So it's like having a second mom if your first mom gets raped and killed?
== Jez ==
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Oh, please. Most of the "crackers turned to security" are grotesquely incompetent and do not write useful tools, they are much like most CPAN publishing Perl programmers. They download more intelligent people's tools, at most change 3 lines, staple them crudely together, and pretend they've written something useful and special. And even the intelligent ones, like Mr. Kevin Mitnick, are not worth the air they breathe because of the destruction they cause with their better than average security skills. There are competent _hackers_ who do fascinating work. I love nmap, and the old 'crack' utility. But there's plenty of fascinating work they can do, and publish, without accidentally or deliberately causing this kind of destruction. I've dealt with older and newer cracker groups. (Does anyone remember the "Legion of Doom World Tour"" T-shirts, with all the sites they hacked?) And this kind of destruction is typical of idiots who think that if they walk around wearing camo pants, they army will want them.
Absolutely, I mean, so what if those guys broke into your house and killed you and raped your mom *right in your own basement bedroom* ... y'know, you should have had better locks, and used them more consistently; y'know, if you'd really cared.
Sure, there are *much* better backup strategies; that having been said, somebody broke in and did a bunch of damage for shits and grins. They suck.
They are the scum of the earth, to be sure.
But on the other hand, if you left your mom home, by herself, with the spare key under the doormat, after using up her cell phone battery so she couldn't call the police, while you left to go play games at the arcade, should you feel guilty? Yes, you probably should.