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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.'"
All that said, my condolences to the server admin / founder
He doesn't get mine. OK, none of this affects me in this case, but if I allowed 13 years' worth of data to be trashed like that, I would never be able to find a job again.
whos to say m$ isnt the "hacker" perhaps they are unveiling a new flightsim version with all the community work in the product, claiming its all theirs. i'm sure the flightgear and x-plane community has its servers locked down and someone has offline copy.
No. Without these malevolent hackers, the website would have gotten into severe problems anyway with this backup scheme. The ones that should be persecuted, if any, are the sysadmins who had a very sloppy backup solution to backup the data worth a lot of time invested by their community.
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Despite what Cypher says in Matrix, ignorance is *not* bliss.
If this still happens to sites like this, it's a good lesson for those idiots to learn the power of the backup (me included he, he!).
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