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Wiz
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I am sorry to report that at 10.53 am today, someone logged into the administration section of the forum, removed and then killed our coffee shop. Everything that is done in the admin section is logged and so of course I went to see what had happened. Here's a jpg of the log.
At first sight, it looks like an accidental blunder by Jaws, however there are two problems with that, firstly, Jaws was asleep in bed at the time and secondly that isn't his IP address range (see below)
So basically someone has go a hold of Jaws' password, logged into the admin section and deleted the Coffee Shop forum. Having had a late night chat with John about it, the most likely explanation comes from his use of the public hospital computer when he was staying there with Mo. He didn't clear the cookies when he left it and so when someone else has used it, they have gone to the site, been automatically logged in as John and had "a little play" in the admin section resulting in the loss of our coffee shop forum. Regrettably, the way in which it has been deleted means that it cannot be retrieved :B
There are a couple of lessons to learn from this. One is that we will introduce a regular data back up schedule and the other is that we will not administer the site from public computers anymore. I know that doesn't help the current situation but I'm afraid that nothing will.
2003 will soon be upon us, time for a new beginning I think. I'm going to meet with John over the remainder of this break to discuss and implement a whole new structure to the forum that helps people find valuable information more easily. In the meantime, you all need to start doing some serious spouting so that we can start filling the pages with lots more b*ll*cks again.
Onward and upwards folks, ho hum...
At first sight, it looks like an accidental blunder by Jaws, however there are two problems with that, firstly, Jaws was asleep in bed at the time and secondly that isn't his IP address range (see below)
So basically someone has go a hold of Jaws' password, logged into the admin section and deleted the Coffee Shop forum. Having had a late night chat with John about it, the most likely explanation comes from his use of the public hospital computer when he was staying there with Mo. He didn't clear the cookies when he left it and so when someone else has used it, they have gone to the site, been automatically logged in as John and had "a little play" in the admin section resulting in the loss of our coffee shop forum. Regrettably, the way in which it has been deleted means that it cannot be retrieved :B
There are a couple of lessons to learn from this. One is that we will introduce a regular data back up schedule and the other is that we will not administer the site from public computers anymore. I know that doesn't help the current situation but I'm afraid that nothing will.
2003 will soon be upon us, time for a new beginning I think. I'm going to meet with John over the remainder of this break to discuss and implement a whole new structure to the forum that helps people find valuable information more easily. In the meantime, you all need to start doing some serious spouting so that we can start filling the pages with lots more b*ll*cks again.
Onward and upwards folks, ho hum...
