[Coco] Drivewire and ADOS...

[Brian Blake]

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On 9/30/2013 5:00 PM, Bill Pierce wrote:
> Brian and Gene... Cocopedia WAS hacked a while back, but it was internally done by someone signing up when it was managed by a "bot". Allen now personally monitors all who sign up and only those he knows.
> There's been no problems since
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:54 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Drivewire and ADOS...
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> On 9/30/2013 4:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Well and good, Al. But the last I knew, that site was a wordpress
>> site, and resembles the question always asked about concrete as its
>> being poured "will it crack?". Wrong. Question. Patently so if history
>> has anything to testify about it. The site WILL be cracked and
>> hacked/destroyed & has been at least twice in the past. So the
>> question then is "when will it be hacked?" So let me make a suggestion
>> right now, at least 2 of us should setup scripts to do a wget -R on
>> the site, the whole thing, say one of you doing it from a crontab
>> entry on Wednesday and the other one on Sunday. That way, should it
>> need a reset, we have an image of the site to reset it to, one that is
>> not more than 4 days old. Since I already am keeping backups of the
>> repo's, all 3 of them, here, I will defer that job to someone else
>> with the requisite few gigs of spare disk space. With an eye to easing
>> the bandwidth used, do the wget the first time, then switch to rsync,
>> which will only exchange data that is different each time. Cheers, Gene
> Gene,
>
> I think you're confusing coco3.com with CoCoPedia. CoCoPedia runs on
> MediaWiki; coco3.com runs on WordPress, and has had a large number of
> issues in the far past and semi-recent past. I'm not aware of CoCoPedia
> being hacked...
>
>
> Brian
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