What has happened to AAJ?

[J.A.W.]

I back this board up every week manually, just for the record.

[patricia]

It took Mike and his associcates SEVEN YEARS to create and establish the site and a few hours for some miscreant hacker to wreck it, just because they could.

Well, there is a second reason for the current disaster: the automatic backup had stopped working in may of this year.

A webmaster must always be prepared for hacker attacks or hard drive crashes that destroy all the server data, that's what backups are there for. Too bad Michael noticed that late there was something wrong with it.

I agree with you, but the fault, ultimately, is with the benign acceptance of the practice of hacking. If the hacker were breaking into our homes and destroying our belongings, one of which is our computer, there would be a huge outcry.

I assume that it is considered vandalism when a hacker breaks into a site and destroys data. Why are people more concerned about what the victimized site has lost, rather than in effect blaming them for the damage the hacker has done to their property??

Because of these cyber-scum, we have to have programs which save our data and take extraordinary means to prevent this from happening. If the hacker were tampering with the mail, they would be reviled, prosecuted and jailed. They would not be being hired to develop programs for companies to guard against what they, themselves, consider a marketable skill.

As it is, there is a large segment of the world which excuses the vandal and blames the victim of their malicious burglary and vandalism for their lack of forsight. Are we trapped in some parallel universe in which it is OK to destroy other people's property, if you are more computer-literate than your victims?

[Claude]

Patricia,

I did not want to minimize the criminal acts of hacking, but these are risks a webmaster must live with, and the data loss could have happened for purely technical reasons too and would have had the same results. Hard drive crashes and virus infections can happen anytime.

It would only have needed a weekly check of the backup to prevent such a major data loss. Michael was probably too busy with the content of the site to take care of this, but a successful site like AAJ, with so many readers and contributors (and sponsors) would have deserved more technical assistance.

Let's hope he can get copies of the articles and reviews that were missing in the backup. Normally the external authors should have a copy, for example in their email outbox. The message board content is not so important in my view. Since this year we are used to losses of complete jazz discussion board contents -_-

[ghost of miles]

Mike is in the process of restoring the site.

Apparantly some hacker [may he/she roast in the eternal fires of Hell] gained access and screwed up the site.

It took Mike and his associcates SEVEN YEARS to create and establish the site and a few hours for some miscreant hacker to wreck it, just because they could.

The "Birthday" thread on the site is, apparantly, gone, as is everything after the middle of May. Damn.

Also, I can't log on at all, because I "don't have permisssion" to do so and my e-mail address is already in use by another poster [ME].

I've e-mailed Mike and haven't heard from him yet.

As for hackers, so revered by many; they are a plague!!!!!

Patricia,

Hope you still re-visit this jazz province from time to time, even if it is admittedly a little guysy. I've enjoyed your contributions and will look for you as "still life" on AAJ.

[patricia]

Claude,

Of course you're right, but I had to vent.

AAJ is back up and the only thing to do is to carry on.

The jazz boards are so valuable and so informative for all of us that it just burns my butt that whole topics threads are gone.

It isn't the end of the world as we know it.

[ghost of miles]

So have all memberships registered since late May been voided? Bummer... I joined in early March, around the time of the BNBB debacle, but I noticed that several people who came later no longer show up on the member list. I'm sure they can just re-register--even if it necessitates a different handle--but it does seem a bit odd over there, as if the past four months never happened... OTOH all of Greg's recent political wisdom has vanished.

[BERIGAN]

Mike is in the process of restoring the site.

Apparantly some hacker [may he/she roast in the eternal fires of Hell] gained access and screwed up the site.

It took Mike and his associcates SEVEN YEARS to create and establish the site and a few hours for some miscreant hacker to wreck it, just because they could.

The "Birthday" thread on the site is, apparantly, gone, as is everything after the middle of May. Damn.

Also, I can't log on at all, because I "don't have permisssion" to do so and my e-mail address is already in use by another poster [ME].

I've e-mailed Mike and haven't heard from him yet.

As for hackers, so revered by many; they are a plague!!!!!

Damn those hackers!!!!

If someone could find out who did it, that would be great.....perhaps just a little jail time would straighten him/her out....

[Rooster_Ties]

I back this board up every week manually, just for the record.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!

:rsmile: :rsmile: :rsmile:

[Brad]

It looks like AAJ is still down. Does anybody know what's going on? I hope it's not down for the count.

[Adam]

For me, AAJ is up and Jazz Corner is down (and has been for 2 days).

[J.A.W.]

For me, AAJ is up and Jazz Corner is down (and has been for 2 days).

I just checked and AAJ and JC are both up.

[Jazzmoose]

I've been at Jazzcorner for the last two days with no problems. .

[Adam]

Most peculiar, then. It's still not working. My work has a newly-installed firewall. I wonder if that is affecting it. Although I'm still getting this site.

It's still www.jazzcorner.com, right?

[Jazzmoose]

Jazzcorner

I think so...