Yeah, not excellent at all. Whoever did this is neither clever nor leet.<br><br clear="all">Cheers,<br>nym<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Seriously not excellent!<br>
<br>
If you did this, own up. If you know who did it, get them to own up.<br>
<br>
Ian, on behalf of Noisebridge generally, I apologize. This was a<br>
terrible thing to do to another member.<br>
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Rachel<br>
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Ian wrote:<br>
> last night, there was an attempted DDOS on the noisebridge forum from<br>
> 75.101.62.89 and 75.101.62.88. yes. those are both noisebridge IPs.<br>
> they submitted around 35,000 votes to the forum and could have taken<br>
> the entire uservoice site down.<br>
><br>
> i have no problem with people voicing their concerns on the mailing<br>
> list, but to do something destructive and illegal using noisebridge<br>
> equipment against a company that one of its members works for simply<br>
> because you didnt agree with its usage is beyond pathetic. rubin, for<br>
> future reference, even though you may not mean anything destructive or<br>
> personal with your "abrasive" (as you put it in your personal apology<br>
> to me) comments on the list, other, weaker people on the list who are<br>
> followers will take them in a different way.<br>
><br>
> i tried to not censor anyone on the feedback forum and accommodate<br>
> everyone and tried to play the role of strictly the forum admin. one<br>
> of our staff deleted the suggestion about trying to get root on our<br>
> site because, well, they simply viewed it as a threat against<br>
> uservoice. i assured them finding security flaws was legitimate and<br>
> will even benefit us. then they pointed to the suggestions about<br>
> disparaging uservoice and my comment facilitating that. then again i<br>
> reassured them i was only being the site administrator and that we<br>
> shouldnt censor people who use our product even if their suggestions<br>
> could hurt our business. the bottom line is i put my neck out to try<br>
> to provide noisebridge with something that i thought would be useful<br>
> and this is the thanks i get.<br>
><br>
> aside from my current situation with the company, uservoice is talking<br>
> about taking legal action against noisebridge for the DDOS attack. i<br>
> have begged them to allow me to solve this without legal intervention.<br>
> i ask that the people who were responsible name themselves and<br>
> separate them from the rest of noisebridge. if you identify yourself,<br>
> explain and apologize for your actions, i think i can convince the<br>
> rest of uservoice to move past this.<br>
><br>
> ian<br>
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