Tmatt95 From United Kingdom, joined Sep 2005, 489 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1801 times:
I sympothise for the people who are in charge of the website as I have a forum and to be honest would not know where to begin if it was hacked (*note to self, backup website/forum tonight)
Quoting RichardPrice (Reply 7): Remember people, destroying is takes less effort than creating.
Too right you are.....I have got 2 hours to get 2 IVA assigments in (creating) and am having dificulties rhatttttt
DL021 From United States of America, joined May 2004, 11433 posts, RR: 81 Reply 15, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1691 times:
What a bunch of assholes. They're congratulating themselves for destroying something created by someone else for no reason. If hackers were worth a crap they'd do something worthwhile.
Not that most of that crap was worth saving, but I hope Sean has a backup....Hell, I'll send him some extra dough to get it back up. I'll IM him now.
Carmenlu15 From Guatemala, joined Dec 2004, 4687 posts, RR: 35 Reply 16, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 4 hours ago) and read 1676 times:
Damn, this sucks. Now how am I supposed to know when a.net is down?
Quoting Sabena332 (Reply 1): They were probably sick and tired of Tornado82's constant bitching and whining.
So true!
Quoting Cadet57 (Reply 4): Wonder if they know its been hit? whoever runs it...
Doubt it. I recall the God of the Board has been too busy with real-life stuff. Remember, there were other issues to be taken care of before the hacking.
ANCFlyer From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 17, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1652 times:
Bummer . . . I won't get to go over there and read the constant and elementary school name calling from a hand full of losers that got their penis smacked by the mods here for being idiots. Dang, that just makes my day . . .
Not good though . . . wonder how Sean will deal with this?
NIKV69 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 20, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1593 times:
Quoting ANCFlyer (Reply 17): Bummer . . . I won't get to go over there and read the constant and elementary school name calling from a hand full of losers that got their penis smacked by the mods here for being idiots
Pep, that is by far the best assesment of that site I have ever heard!
Ezra From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 457 posts, RR: 2 Reply 21, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1587 times:
Speaking of this, what became of Sean Mendis? I haven't followed the contours of a.net lately. His posts were always excellent, and instructional, reading.
DAL767400ER From Germany, joined Feb 2005, 5721 posts, RR: 50 Reply 22, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 3 hours ago) and read 1572 times:
Quoting Ezra (Reply 21): Speaking of this, what became of Sean Mendis? I haven't followed the contours of a.net lately. His posts were always excellent, and instructional, reading.
On here, he's on a one-year ban, which should be over in some 80 days, judging by when his last post was. Outside the internet, he's working with the start-up of a carrier in Ghana, Ghana International Airways, IIRC, and as a result doesn't spend too much time on 'his' site either.
Saxdiva From United States of America, joined Jun 2004, 2382 posts, RR: 46 Reply 24, posted (7 years 4 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago) and read 1484 times:
Quoting Tmatt95 (Reply 8): I sympothise for the people who are in charge of the website as I have a forum and to be honest would not know where to begin if it was hacked (*note to self, backup website/forum tonight)
I administer a forum using the same software, and mine got hacked a couple of months ago. These twerps probably didn't even know what kind of forum they were hacking; most of it is done by scripts, and they just do a google search to find vulnerable boards.
Recovery after these incidents is kind of a drag. In my case, after re-installing the system and copying over the remaining data, I was able to preserve the user accounts, but not any of the forum content or even the structure of the forum itself. It was a major bummer... and mine was a comunity outreach forum for a nonprofit organization, so it was particularly galling.
I do have a tip for anyone who runs a phpBB forum, though: keep your software CURRENT. If you're running an old version, you're going to join those of us who've had to deal with this stuff. Also, the folks over at phpBB maintain their own support forums--it's not a bad idea to lurk there and be aware of new vulnerabilities as they're identified.
-Leanne
25 Saxdiva: Oh, wow... this just reminded me of something. Ian, check your IMs, wouldya?
26 NIKV69: Not sucking up to anyone pal, just appreciating that phrase. It was priceless!
27 Runway23: Did scotty pull the plug again? RHAA!
28 BristolFlyer: I believe Bozkurtserdar is Turkish for 'Johan'. Must be tired of being b1tched at from airwhiners BF
30 N1120A: I think it was the 2 of them working in cahoots Sean Mendis, how did you not know that?
31 AeroWesty: I recall mentioning to someone the other night ::cough:: that it would be nice to have an ignore user function over there, but I didn't mean this ...
32 Srbmod: Airwhiners isn't the only A.net-related parody site. There is Stueywhiners which was started by Delta767-300ER a while back after the picking on Scott
33 Kaddyuk: You only hate it because everyone bitches about YOU... Muppet!
35 EWS: Can just see these kids who hacked the website running round the school playground "hey i hacked airwhiners.." "cooooooooooolllllllllll mannnnn" Lew
36 Aloges: Hmmm... "nosewheel"? He/she/it might have something to do with the hack.
37 Ilikeyyc: I only had about 25 posts over there, and 'whiners was mostly a source of entertainment for me. I post so infrequently here that I have virtually noth
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So true!
and elementary school name calling from a hand full of losers that got their penis smacked by the mods here for being idiots. Dang, that just makes my day . . . 
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