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Subject:Re: Vanagon.com is Hacked!!!
From:Carrington, Tom
Date:Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:47:25 -0500

Hi David,

I have no admin privledges on the www.vanagon.com site. Ron and possibly
Brent are the 2 people that I know of that can fix the site. :(

TomC

-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:02 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Vanagon.com is Hacked!!!

At 08:45 AM 12/13/2000, Chris Smith wrote:
>Wow.. I've seen some kiddie hacks and this is not one of them.  The web
>site had a major security hole and someone walked right up and said
>"boo".  We were lucky.  The hack came from over-seas, and as such would
>require the State Department to get involved for any though of
>prosecution.  Since the damage was really tiny, this would not likely
happen.

On top of which the intruder has posted an apology, a promise to fix the
site tomorrow, and the address of the proper Vanagon root page
(http://www.vanagon.com/indexoriginal.html).  Clearly a young man, judgment
perhaps a bit shaky, but definitely not one of the bad guys.

d
ps -- is Tom out of town?

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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