Thread: Well, crap!!!
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Old 10-21-2006, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Aisling View Post
i think the reason they hacked into the forum and not the main site is because the forum is built on php and the site is just regular html. no one has updated the php in awhile, so they probably found a loophole somewhere and used it to get in. if someone had just been abe to access the forum, they could have updated it with whatever security patches were necessary! it would have taken 5 minuts.
Even though I don't completely understand your explanation, it does make sense. Maybe that's why the forum was fine until this year after that guy at Sanctuary abandoned it.

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Originally Posted by Aisling View Post
i hope ian makes it over here, it would be too sad if he didn't. ian if you're reading this, give us a shout!
Ian is registered here on the Ledge as electronicstorm. Hopefully, he'll check in here.
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