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Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#31
Not the first "you've been pwned" message on the Internet and won't be the last.

It just happens to be the first I've seen use Google Analytics to track the lulz with CSS and @font-face. With that layout I was expecting to see a customer rant, not a "pwned" message.

On a more serious note are they going to be able to afford to have a separate EC2 instance per customer to avoid having to write a proper sandbox?

Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#32
Even at 16, you should be mature enough to know that this is classless. I hope for their sake they never start their own business and never fuck up, because that'd be awfully sad if the next kids to come along decided to show them the same courtesy they've shown here.

Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#33
post #32

Even at 16, you should be mature enough to know that this is classless. I hope for their sake they never start their own business and never fuck up, because that'd be awfully sad if the next kids to come along decided to show them the same courtesy they've shown here.

This is just precious:

@ElliotSpeck: > ...I'm available for consulting if you ever want to hire a security manager for @phpfog. :)

As someone who takes security seriously, and manages shared hosting security for a living, I can't imagine what the PHPFog people are going through right now. Finding security holes in commercial systems and discreetly notifying the owners of the problem is one thing; broadcasting knowledge of the holes to the world without a reasonable wait is akin to criminal. I don't care if they actually exploited it, they just threw wide the door without a second thought.

Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#34
post #31

Not the first "you've been pwned" message on the Internet and won't be the last. It just happens to be the first I've seen use Google Analytics to track the lulz with CSS and @font-face. With that layout I was expecting to see a customer rant, not a "pwned" message. On a more serious note are they going to be able to afford to have a separate EC2 instance per customer to avoid having to write a proper sandbox?

After serious reputation damage… will they still have customers?

Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#35
post #32

Even at 16, you should be mature enough to know that this is classless. I hope for their sake they never start their own business and never fuck up, because that'd be awfully sad if the next kids to come along decided to show them the same courtesy they've shown here.

Agreed. 5 days ago one of the hackers wrote on Twitter:

"Wow, heroku for PHP. I thought of this once, sadly I wouldn't be able to get 1.2 mil in funding :(".

Well, at least we didn't have to look too hard for a motive.

Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#37
post #32

Even at 16, you should be mature enough to know that this is classless. I hope for their sake they never start their own business and never fuck up, because that'd be awfully sad if the next kids to come along decided to show them the same courtesy they've shown here.

Agreed. 5 days ago one of the hackers wrote on Twitter: "Wow, heroku for PHP. I thought of this once, sadly I wouldn't be able to get 1.2 mil in funding :(". Well, at least we didn't have to look too hard for a motive.

It is so petty

I hope they get it sorted

Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#38
post #32

Even at 16, you should be mature enough to know that this is classless. I hope for their sake they never start their own business and never fuck up, because that'd be awfully sad if the next kids to come along decided to show them the same courtesy they've shown here.

Agreed. 5 days ago one of the hackers wrote on Twitter: "Wow, heroku for PHP. I thought of this once, sadly I wouldn't be able to get 1.2 mil in funding :(". Well, at least we didn't have to look too hard for a motive.

Do you have a link for that tweet? Or a screen-capture?

Re: Phpfog "Down for maintenance"

#40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. 5 days ago one of the hackers wrote on Twitter: "Wow, heroku for PHP. I thought of this once, sadly I wouldn't be able to get 1.2 mil in funding :(". Well, at least we didn't have to look too hard for a motive.

Do you have a link for that tweet? Or a screen-capture?

http://twitter.com/compwhizii/status/48172082667864065

(I had to create a different account because I have no_procrast activated on my main account. It'd be awesome if no_procrast would be automatically disabled during the weekend.)

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