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lala_rawraw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:02 PM
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Downed sites?
So the 9/11 hearings to be held tomorrow were listed formally on 911Citizens Watch, which was hacked to go to a sex site. I spoke with owner who is lived about this.

ADS was not allowed to send emails, even though they were not sending via the ADS domain...Comcast. Bradblog reported on this, but I cannot find the link ATM (someone please post)

Raw Story went down a few times this week as well, although not exactly sure yet what happened there.

Any other sites downed this week?

Is AAR down? Was PDA down? I want to make a list of this.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:16 PM
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1. Could be a way to save power. I think fans would get the priority
anywhere in North America tonight. Keep your mind open if systems go down. We don't want anyone to die from heat exposure so let the bigwigs turn off power or prioritize switches so that we all have a way to stay cool. Especially the poor and elderly who don't have aircon - or the homeless.

Just look at it like that tonight. Would be a good use of shuts downs - undoing the internet if that is the case.
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:29 PM
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3. I can't get Buzzflash.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:32 PM
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4. buzzflash works fine for me n/t
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wurzel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:37 PM
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5. I still can't get it. I wonder why. I get everything else.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:42 PM
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6. I still say it could be roving blackouts that tie up some routes to ISPs.
So traffic is heavier on some routes and harder to log on.
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:25 PM
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2. There is a serious vulnerability
Edited on Thu Jul-21-05 09:30 PM by salvorhardin
shared by many of the content management system and blog software. Actually, the vulnerability is in XML-RPC for PHP. It allows attackers to inject (and thus run) their own PHP code and make the server do whatever they want. Many, many sites were compromised because of this vulnerability including spreadfirefox.com. It's the latest fad in hacking.

The 911CitizensWatch site appears to have been running one of the affected versions of PostNuke.

It is important for sites that are running any of the software listed here -- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14088/info -- to check with their software vendor or the development site of their software and follow any instructions for fixing the vulnerability. Alternately, contact your web hosting provider and ask them to fix it for you.

It is usually a very simple fix, but it is very important to plug this hole. If you don't you are a sitting duck for all the 14 year old script kiddies with underdeveloped consciences and way too much time on their hands.

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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:46 PM
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7. i've got buzzflash now but it was off for awhile
did DU really go down for maintenance last night (early this morning) or was there a problem here as well?
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spacelady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 09:49 PM
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8. Not to be naive, but wouldn't rolling blackouts for electricity overload
be somehow communicated so that people would understand they are not being hacked? I am just responding to these alternative explanations about the heat, etc. being a factor.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 11:50 PM
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10. Of course they are. They warned today that California was at some level.
Could mean some companies with many servers put some of them down - so internet traffic is reduced. I didn't know where the person was blogging from.

My point was - who knows!
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Wizard777 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-21-05 10:10 PM
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9. My browser and email went down.
Durrung the President's visit to the Port of Baltimore.

They wouldn't be cutting the lines of communication. That is a military tactic and it would be a violation of posse comitatus to use that against We The People. That would be treasonous. But in these Trotsky based Republican wars. We The People might be the enemy. Oooookay.
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Fly by night Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-22-05 07:14 AM
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11. My emails to two election reform email lists were "rejected" by my server.
Edited on Fri Jul-22-05 07:19 AM by Fly by night
The lists were for our statewide election reform group (Gathering To Save Our Democracy) and to the attendees at the National Election Reform Conference. This had never happened before but it started last week. When I contacted my server (Bellsouth), they had no idea what was going on. But the emails are going through again, though neither my server nor I know why.

Here in the Orange State, we're flattered to be considered irritating enough to the "powers that shouldn't be" to have them disrupt our free speech. I sure hope we've helped add another herpes-scarred hemorrhoid to Rove's lower lip.
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