Downtime

Posted by Lex Konrad in Dispatches | Dec 30, 2004

NLP was down for a couple days. Apparently there was a vulnerability in the software that runs the message board on this and many other sites. Nothing was lost, fortunately: my host had the good sense to deactivate the vulnerable message boards en masse. The downside is they didn’t let me know they’d taken countermeasures and so I spent a couple hours in a state of panic. It reminded me that security is an illusion.

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