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I just got word as to what is happening with Blue Mass Group, if you have been trying to get that website all day. Apparently, SoapBlox, which BMG uses for hosting and running their site, has been seriously hacked. It looks very, very bad.
This follows the hacking and death of Journalspace, another popular blog site, which very recently went under due to the severity of its data loss. I suspect the two are not unrelated.
I’ve already offered what help I can to David, but it’s hard to know how quickly BMG might be back up, if it can get back up at all with its archives intact. Best wishes, guys.
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January 7th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Looks like their server is back up at bluemassgroup.org.
No telling on how long it will be up for, though.
January 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
When I started my blog, it was as part of an aggregator site. When the aggregator stopped using blogger, it asked me to just post on its sie - see, how easy! How fun! I kept my Blogger site going, and later when I parted company with the aggregator, I still had all my old posts intact and could just keep going.
Is there any way using SoapBlox to direct posts and comments to a shadow site automatically?
January 7th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
If there was a vulnerability before, I worry that someone - the same someone or someone else - will exploit it.
They’re talking about going to a WPMU installation but IMHO, that would be a sorta departure from their current direction, and I’m not sure I would make that choice, but eh.
And PP - no, so far as I know. Soapblox is, as I recall, based on scoop, but it departed ways and did its own thing and had its own developer.