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How I spent my hurricane vacation
Well, that was pleasant.
First off, around the 24^th of August, the server that was hosting this site,
swift.conman.org, was compromised (through my login no less). Due to
differences in opinion on the situation (and seeing how the system does
belong to Mark) he was kind enough to give me until Sunday, September 5^th
(nevermind a Class 3 hurricane coming through. Then again, Mark will be the
first to admit he isn't the most diplomatic of people).
So when we weren't preparing for Hurricane Frances, moving sites to a
different server occupied my time. Then, once Hurricane Frances blew past,
the server I moved the sites to got cracked.
It had nothing to do with the swift.conman.org compromise since we have a
very good idea as to who did it. And the major difference between this
compromise and the compromise to swift.conman.org was the cracker deleting
every site on the box, and making sure the box had to be rebuilt from scratch
(since with /bin, /sbin and the kernel deleted as well, the server wouldn't
be of much use).
So while the National Hurricane Center [1] was bouncing Ivan off of Florida,
every moment I wasn't sleeping (or severely sleep deprived) was spent
rebuilding three servers (the full extent of the damage) from scratch, and
attempting to recover lost data.
Almost makes me pine for the days of getting denial of service attacks [2].
So once that was done, it meant copying my sites off of swift.conman.org yet
again. Which explains why I haven't been around all that much during the past
two weeks.
It's been a rather interesting two weeks.
And Hurricane Ivan has best be the last storm this year.
[1]
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/1Phlog:2003/12/17
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