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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsanonymous takes down godaddy
anonymous (or at least one its leaders) is taking credit for an attack on godaddy that has taken down millions of websites (mine included)
http://mashable.com/2012/09/10/godaddy-down/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
fleur-de-lisa
(14,616 posts)why don't they hack MittWits tax attorney and disclose his freaking returns?!?
meow2u3
(24,745 posts)Anonymous ought to hack the freaking VOTING MACHINES, or at least "counterhack" them so they can't flip them to favor the rethugs.
StarryNite
(9,366 posts)YouTube for messing up our channels...it never happened though.
Versailles
(476 posts)And I just spent 7+ hours at work pushing out some major content changes and marketing some events...going to be really really ticked if I have to redo it all...
RC
(25,592 posts)Versailles
(476 posts)Was in the middle of finishing up the updates and getting the last few tweaks done when it went down...no time to do a full site backup.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)That way, you have the latest version stored locally. I even store incremental updates offsite as I work. I hate repeating the same work, so I'm sort of anal about it.
Oh, yeah, everything goes on a thumbdrive with each save, too.
Versailles
(476 posts)But as it is, my connection is limited and often blocked on things. I can't even install a simple program without what amounts to an act of congress. To get them to install WAMP or the like would send the bureaucrats into spasms of fear. To trust that my connection would be stable enough to upload the site when I was finished is something I'd rather not test either! Not to mention that I'm not allowed FTP connections...
When I tell you that the tech departments on Air Force bases are completely bass ackward is an understatement. The people heading up the tech departments have gotten there, not because they know tech, but because they know how to kiss the right behinds.
Oh and to make it even more fun, no thumbdrives or other "mass storage devices" are allowed to be connected to computers on the network. That makes it even more fun to figure out how to transport PSD files back and forth to various people in the offices since emails are limited to 7mbs and .zip and .png extensions are stripped from all emails to and from .mil email addresses.
I have gotten them to get a commercial time warner connection for the office which makes it a little easier for some work, but we HAVE to have the USAF version of windows installed which locks down EVERYTHING. It is an exercise in creativity to get work done!!
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Really? That doesn't sound right, somehow.
Versailles
(476 posts)Our site is not the official air force site that you are thinking of. We are specific to a support squadron of the base I am at. It is basically to keep the military personnel and their families informed of what is going on around the base for them. For example, the library on base does a summer reading program every year and we market that event for the library. We have had karaoke nights, "Minute to Win It" gameshow night, a trunk-or-treat event, etc.
The website that I have inherited is a .com site that is indeed hosted by godaddy...though if I were to have set it up, I probably would have gone with a different host. I just started a few months ago, so I am still building enough respect to be able to suggest changes like that...
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)That would complicate things, for sure. In my days in the USAF, the only computers had their own rooms. In some cases, very large rooms. We had typewriters and teletype tape punchers. Security had to do with proper filing of paper. I'm really old, I think.
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)it feels douchebaggish to me.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)They're not revolutionary, either. They're anarchists, doing exactly what they please and to hell with everyone else.
Script kiddies, one and all.
Assholes, I calls 'em.
MineralMan
(146,192 posts)Not by any means. But so many people unwittingly use that service, that this attack harms people for no cause at all. Probably some script kiddy who had his website pulled for violating the TOS. Anonymous is an asshole, much of the time.
mojowork_n
(2,354 posts)Members of the infamous hacktivist collective released a video statement in which they accuse GoDaddy, the Internet domain seller, of supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
We have taken notice to your support of the United States Government's attempt to censor and control the internet. We are talking about your support of the Stop Online Privacy Act. The fact that a company that sells domains supports a bill that will block ISP's from allowing their users to access domains is unbelievable, Anonymous said.
What's your site? Who has been hit, how? I'd be interested to hear some specific details...