Ardell and Robbie are aware of it. I haven’t heard about it from Dustin or Galen.
The mostly likely culprit is a straight hack: The vandals penetrated the file server and replaced the index.php page with their own version. Alternatively, they may have hacked the DNS server to make raincityguide.com point to a different IP address. Either way, this should be easily correctable by RCG’s ISP once they know about it. Ardell wondered about possible virus consequences, which seems unlikely, but Robbie pointed out that HTML potentially can be malicious, so it’s probably better not to play with fire. I have a web archive of the site as it stands right now and I see nothing hostile — nor even clever — in it, for what that’s worth.
That is really too bad. There is no excuse for that or any other kind of cyber terrorism. I’m really sorry to see something like that happen to good people.
It’s a shame that this has happened, but it is validation (in some weird world) for RCG’s influence that 1) they’ve been hacked and 2) so many know about it. Odd.
ardell dellaloggia says:
Pretty scary. I hope Dusting can reclaim it.
September 3, 2006 — 8:31 am
phd says:
On the positive side, being hacked means they’ve hit the big time 🙂
September 3, 2006 — 9:06 am
Greg Swann says:
When life hands you a jihad…
September 3, 2006 — 9:12 am
Greg Swann says:
This is me from a comment to another message:
Ardell and Robbie are aware of it. I haven’t heard about it from Dustin or Galen.
The mostly likely culprit is a straight hack: The vandals penetrated the file server and replaced the index.php page with their own version. Alternatively, they may have hacked the DNS server to make raincityguide.com point to a different IP address. Either way, this should be easily correctable by RCG’s ISP once they know about it. Ardell wondered about possible virus consequences, which seems unlikely, but Robbie pointed out that HTML potentially can be malicious, so it’s probably better not to play with fire. I have a web archive of the site as it stands right now and I see nothing hostile — nor even clever — in it, for what that’s worth.
September 3, 2006 — 12:01 pm
Josh says:
That is really too bad. There is no excuse for that or any other kind of cyber terrorism. I’m really sorry to see something like that happen to good people.
September 3, 2006 — 4:32 pm
Jeff Kerr says:
Bummer. While in Chicago, I still need my daily fix of Rain City. Hope all can be resolved.
September 3, 2006 — 6:22 pm
Jim Duncan says:
It’s a shame that this has happened, but it is validation (in some weird world) for RCG’s influence that 1) they’ve been hacked and 2) so many know about it. Odd.
September 3, 2006 — 7:51 pm
ardell dellaloggia says:
Dustin’s working on it now. I feel like I’m at the bedside waiting to find out if there’s going to be a funeral.
September 3, 2006 — 9:57 pm