Posted on 08/28/2021 9:05:34 AM PDT by tje
Anyone know what’s up?
Sound like the response to the spam attack from late last night. Some clown or bot posted dozens of posts ranging from nonsensical to obscene using several different hijacked accounts.
You’ll likely be able to log in again soon.
>>The destruction of the USA is almost complete.<<
Yes but this issue is through ignorance. I come from the old Mainframe days where production control and deployment are disciplines.
It amazes me that multi billion dollar corporations just shovel out changes to the client-facing applications with NO attention paid to regression testing, acceptance testing, fallback/contingency plans, etc.
Instead they just shut their eyes and deploy and pray to the gods that their new stuff did not totally screw everything up. Which it invariably does.
These systems are managed by children who, even if in their 30s or 40s, never learned a damn thing about systems software stability and risk management. A bunch of damn Peter Pans.
They just think about features and not the pain they create.
>>I think I remember Jim Robinson writing it would be down today - not 100% sure though.<<
Yeah it is still down.
Finally was able to sign in!!!
I don’t know how all the other computer experts were able to ‘keep chatting’ all day.
Feels like I am finally out of the desert!
Some people never log out, so I presume (guest a guess) that those accounts were not phished by the hackers.
Phishing can come many ways. Usually by an email sent to you saying “Hi we’re Acme Highly Secure Agency You Trust and you need to reset your password by pressing the button below” and someone presses the button it takes them to a fake login screen that looks exactly like the real one (very easy to just copy the logos and even the HTML code of the page to design it the same) to fool you into thinking you are on their site. When you enter your old password to reset it they got you. This is how that Hillary Campaign guy’s gmail password was stolen.
Other ways are to fake the log in screen on the server itself, basically replace the file on the server with the same type of fake page used above, or by inserting code into the normal file so it sends the password to the hacker when you do log in. Then they got you. Harder to do that, they’d have to hack the server itself.
I’m sure there are other ways.
Always check the URL of the website. You can often do this even in an email. Before you push the button just hover over it, or, click and copy the link. If it is from your bank it will say something like “password.yourbank.com/etcetc”. If it says something like “yourbank.unknownsite.cc/password-reset” then it’s fake. Learning to read the signs of these things can take time but worth it. The main thing is the part just before the .com or .org or .cc etc (there are lots of them). That is what will tell you if you are going to the domain managed by real service. It is easy to insert “yourbank.” into a phishing url subdomain to fool people when they see that.
There was a hacker attack last night, so many folks are having trouble logging in.
Thank YOU for a most cogent reply !
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I can't figure it out
The theory of chaos, made famous by Jeff Goldblum’s character in Jurassic Park says that as systems become more complex, they become less predictable and operate in synergistic ways unplanned by any one component design(er).
I spent a lot of time studying the Theory of Chaos (which is quite well defined) but by page 3 the math shot over my head and lef me dizzy (same was true for AI).
But I kept studying anyway as the idea fascinated (and fascinates) me. So I have come away with a general understanding of what it is with pretty much no idea how to apply it.
Thus we have complex system like FR which, although authored by John, behaves in ways even he cannot predict when it interacts with the complex set of systems within which it operate (OS, storage, THE INTERNET, etc.).
I posted upthread about how changes made my billion dollar companies do not undergo production disciplines. The more complex, the higher the need.
FR is NOT a billion dollar company and frankly is more stable than most banks and financial institutions’ client-facing portals.
Beat me to it.
Had the same problem with my iPhone, but all is well now. Whew
I guess I was one of them! 😡 My own fault though. Made it too easy.
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