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#2723880 - 05/13/09 09:06 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Tom_Weiss]
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Been trying to grab some skins for my A2A Thunderbolt that were only available at AVSIM. No wonder! Thought it was just maintenance.
Never understood the pleasure recieved from this sort of thing. Is it just because they can?
I suppose it's a badge honor amongst the hacking communnity. "Look what I did!"
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#2723891 - 05/13/09 09:20 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Pooch]
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Shame, I will donate when they get back up. However, as some pointed out here, offline backup would have saved them a lot of headache, even if it was a month old.

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#2723893 - 05/13/09 09:22 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: RSColonel_131st]
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"if we can come back at all"

Nice, thanks Crackers! NOT! A-holes.

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#2723901 - 05/13/09 09:30 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: PositiveG]
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AVSIM has plenty of resources to draw upon - they will be back in their feet in no time, and much wiser for sure, problem is when they do this to the smaller sites and manage to knock them out for good.
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#2723903 - 05/13/09 09:35 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: PositiveG]
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Such a shame, I hope they can recover from this. Several commercial firms use the Avsim forums for customer support (PMDG, HiFi simulations etc) I wonder if they are going to have to make new arrangements if this is going to be a timely process?

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#2723932 - 05/13/09 10:30 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: weeksy]
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Big blow to the flightsim community. I hope they recover from this and get the guys who did it.

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#2723934 - 05/13/09 10:34 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Skater]
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Originally Posted By: Skater

Actually, there is a lot that beats both an external RAID and a Tape library...

-Skater


I'd be curious to know what that is (Keeping in mind an average budget)
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#2723963 - 05/13/09 11:07 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: joe_stallin]
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Originally Posted By: joe_stallin
Originally Posted By: Skater

Actually, there is a lot that beats both an external RAID and a Tape library...

-Skater


I'd be curious to know what that is (Keeping in mind an average budget)




Well, offsite replication is one way (complements offboard storage and static babckup), keeping in mind that ONE solution is never a safe or sane DR strategy.

For example:





This is ONE way. The hacker will not have access to the protected DR site, and in most cases, will not know of the existence of the other site.

Of course, that is a really simple way to do it, there are many others, with varying complexity and varying security schemas.

-Skater

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#2723966 - 05/13/09 11:09 AM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: Skater]
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See that cloud in the middle. That's my turf! We make the blue lines work! ;-)

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#2724028 - 05/13/09 12:46 PM Re: AVSIM hacked [Re: PositiveG]
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Could have been an insider job,

http://linux.myalbemarle.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=41

which in a way, would be good news.
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