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:: Saturday, November 21st, 2009Solon Economou
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Hacked by Jesus freaks!
Hallelujah brothers, hallelujah sisters! It's happened. My web site, www.solonicus.com, has been hacked and taken over by Jesus freaks. I always suspected the Chinese Communists might come after me, or the Democrats, or the Republicans, or maybe Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. But Jesus freaks!
The hacked web site was still active when I wrote this, but it may be gone by the time you can read it. The gist is that some bozo's grandfather was a Presbyterian minister and now this bozo wants everyone to come to Jesus via my web site and about a thousand others that were similarly hacked. The FBI has been called in. Maybe they can pray they'll catch the hackers. But it does me no good, as my site is irretrievably taken over and inaccessible . I have kept my domain name in case I want to have some one build me another one.
As a matter of information, the people I've been dealing with regarding the web site are catalog.com and webhero.com (What a misnomer!). Maybe you want to deal with them, maybe you don't, but I believe web site security is lacking. Webhero sent out a rambling letter sort of blaming Microsoft's FrontPage (which I use) and insecure passwords. The latter point is somewhat disingenuous, as webhero gave me my 16-character password.
Well, that's all from here. Just p------ off, just a warning to others, and one last thing--if you want me to come to Jesus, use a more Christian approach.
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None of the twenty five sites I host and manage on our dedicated server have been hacked or down in the last three years.
ps...how does an ex-military guy let someone else give him his password?
It was "local" insofar as that a web master and I set it up over six years ago in Norfolk VA at the site he used at that time (catalog.com).
The password situation is that they had a glitch about four years ago that they said compromised all the passwords, so they handed out 16-character passwords (maybe that was a good warning).
Since my task was maintaining and updating it, and not starting it up (which I am not computer-literate enough to do), have you any suggestions? I have kept the domain name, and all the stuff is in my computer in FrontPage, which has been discontinued by Microsoft.
Right now I am waiting for it to disappear when I click on it, saying "web address not found" or something to that effect since I have canceled everything but the domain name.
Also get bartenderfromhell a dictionary (powned?) or get him a drink.
Look forward to sharing a beverage with you this summer.
Good luck,
Jack
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Rockhopper, my friend, it's just these bozos I'm talking about, not all the Jesus people. In fact, I think it's an affront to Christianity that they chose to use this message to screw up web sites.
that's the old site
If you would like to chat about it email me.
Jack
Read Kevin Philips' 2004 book "American Theocracy" where he provides both cogent analysis and thorough documentation to draw parallels between the decline of the Dutch Empire at the end of the era of wood and wind, the decline of the British Empire at the end of the coal era, and to predict decline of the U.S. as the age of petroleum is drawing to a close. In every instance, dependence on a single energy technology for economic strength, combined with foolish financial policies and the rise of religion in politics are the factors that end world hegemony.
Philips you may recall is the conservative political analyst who cut his teeth working for Nixon and wrote "The Emerging Republican Majority" in 1969, predicting the rise of the GOP through focusing on "values" voters, like the Jesus freaks, in the South and mid-West.
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