By: greekdude1 - 8th July 2003 at 00:34
Elias, I too was online while they were busy hacking away. I noticed that you and Steve were also online and I attempted to send you an email, asking if I was the only one that had the swastikas all over his screen. Apparantly not. It went from swastikas, to bloody swastikas to them changing the names of the different forums. At first I thought I had received a virus, or something, as all the comments and names of the forums were pretty much anti-american. That was Sunday evening (Pacific Standard time), but when I went back in there Monday morning, all that was gone, and only the message from the webmaster saying the database had been hacked into. I echo everybody’s sentiments about how good it is to be back into the forum again. I didn’t realize how many hours I actually spend in this thing!
By: KabirT - 5th July 2003 at 10:59
prob. some teenagers having to much time.
By the way there is worldwide hacking competition tomm……..webmaster keep a sharp eye.
By: Cyprioteagle - 5th July 2003 at 04:46
It feels like home… being back.
Congratulations to the webmaster and team for all the good work they have done in bringing back our beloved forum to action!
I have to admit I was logged on when the hackers started doing the work and I feel bad that I didnt know they were attacking the site so that I could stop it. I was reading the thread that people wrote regarding airliners.net chasing after the sites that use the photographs without their permission. And i started seeing the svastika signs and i thought it was a joke. I left the site open and I carried out with my work on the thesis, only later to find out something went terribly wrong!!! the forum changed…, it was hacked.
It happened at the early hours of the weekend, either saturday morning or Sunday morning, I m not quite sure.
I never understood what they gained by hacking this site!!!
Anyway, its good to be back
By: steve rowell - 5th July 2003 at 01:27
Great to be back online
By: LBARULES - 4th July 2003 at 20:10
Great to speak to all you guys again!
I never realised how much of my life is taken up by this forum.
By: KabirT - 4th July 2003 at 17:02
its good to be bak and see you aviation buffs again!:D
By: Saab 2000 - 4th July 2003 at 16:43
Yeah, I came on Monday morning and was quite shocked with what I saw. Excellent to have the forums back, you don’t realise how much your lives revolve around them until they are gone 🙂
By: robc - 4th July 2003 at 15:49
Yes finally, yeah i too saw what the hackers had done, renamoing the forums and all…:eek:
Whats the point…?
Anyways we have to make up for lost posts:D
We should be thankful to webmaster(s) for getting it back up and without loosing anything:D
By: Ren Frew - 4th July 2003 at 15:45
I echo the above, nice to be back and just ignore the hackers they crave attention.
By: Comet - 4th July 2003 at 15:41
Well said Hand!! I was really angry when I logged in Monday morning (before the forum was taken off line) and I saw what had been done. I had just subscribed to a 24 hour internet access package and was looking forward to being able to spend more time on here and that happened. I missed posting on here these past few days and I am really glad it’s back. Well done to the Webmaster.
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