My website was stolen by a hacker and I got it back

Post by mannykannot » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 4:24 AM UTC

lutusp wrote: post #34

The most unfortunate part of this story is that the site owner had to use underhanded tactics of her own to regain control of her site. She didn't get her site back by going through formal legal channels, she got it back by using tactics similar to those used by the criminal she was dealing with. Different intent and legal standing, but same methods. It would be interesting to know what would have happened if she had…

Post by nitrogen » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 5:44 AM UTC

jellicle wrote: post #103

Shinkei wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You publicly complained about their customer service. They have offered to right the wrong. You have a poor sense of fairness if you are willing to make a public claim and then aren't willing to address the issue when the company calls you out on it.

Oh, the stupidity, it burns. What sort of righting do you think they could do, several years past the fact? Gandi refused to respond to their web form for a period of about four weeks or more; they let my domain expire and be deleted (if I recall, the only problem was that my credit card expiration date needed to be updated in their system and the charge processed). Besides the immediate hassle and serious annoyance…

Post by danielbarla » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 6:40 AM UTC

dbbolton wrote: post #105

euphemize wrote: post #60

> 1. Have a really, really good password, and change it often. Your password should not contain “real” words (and definitely not more than one real word in immediate proximity, like “whitecat” or “angrybird”), and should contain capital letters, numbers and symbols. The best passwords of all look like total nonsense. http://xkcd.com/936/ But really, I'm a bit puzzled by her 5 "recommendations". Turn off your devices…

The xkcd-style passwords may be less vulnerable to a brute-force attack, but they are more vulnerable to a dictionary attack. There are (very) roughly 2^17 words in the dictionary, so if you pick 4 there are 2^68 possibilities, or 2.95e20. There are 94 printable characters on a US keyboard. This means that an 11-character "hard to remember" password has over 16 times as many (~2^72, 5.06e21) combinations as a four-wo…

Post by soulshake » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 6:52 AM UTC

caleb23 wrote: post #119

This has a lot of good information in it and I put a lot of time into it, but I do realize it is hard to read since Hacker News doesn't start things on new lines. If someone can tell me how to do that if it is possible that would be great. If not here it is on Pastebin - http://pastebin.com/MspKq8sz . Here is what I recommend for website security (this is a lot of advice and is not perfect - if you want me to write t…

Post by bananas » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 6:59 AM UTC

aalbertson wrote: post #106

jellicle wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, the stupidity, it burns. What sort of righting do you think they could do, several years past the fact? Gandi refused to respond to their web form for a period of about four weeks or more; they let my domain expire and be deleted (if I recall, the only problem was that my credit card expiration date needed to be updated in their system and the charge processed). Besides the immediate hassle and serious annoyance…

just to drive a point home about "calling out stupidity". Your follow up statement is the equivalent of stating "I'll never ever ever use a Windows product because several years ago I use Windows M.E. and it was so bad and they wouldn't fix anything so they can't possibly have fixed any of the issues I may or may not have actually experienced". It really irks me when people use this sort of logic. I can't say what th…