Scratch

Lightnin · 2013-01-22 19:57:18

Sigh. hmm

Here's the story. It may still be affecting some Scratchers - but the effects will go away once their ISPs update their DNS cache.

http://tech.mit.edu/V132/N62/hack.html

shiguy101 · 2013-01-22 19:58:18

so that's what happened.

Failord · 2013-01-22 20:09:51

Gosh. It's good to be proud to be an American, but hacking is just plain wrong! Honestly, Uncle Sam doesn't want you to be doing criminal behavior! Yes, God bless America, but I say down with hackers! Make a useful, creative website in memorial instead of breaking the law, for goodness sake!

Okay, I'm done now. Had to rant. Please up the ante on secutity, MIT!

CheeseMunchy · 2013-01-22 20:18:54

I haven't been affected since about 4:00 PM EST

jvvg · 2013-01-22 20:21:19

I looked at the article. No offense, but who was stupid enough to make all .edu domains managed by the same organization? One hacker, and bam, every college loses their website, email, etc. It would be much wiser to have them managed by multiple organizations, so if one is hacked, only some of the colleges lose their network resources, rather than every single one.

hungergamesfanatic · 2013-01-22 22:41:20

Wow. That is just low. I can't believe anyone would do this... C'mon it isn't MIT's fault he commuted suicide! -.-

muppetds · 2013-01-23 03:01:11

ah so thats what was going on...

Mokat · 2013-01-23 08:05:13

jvvg wrote:
I looked at the article. No offense, but who was stupid enough to make all .edu domains managed by the same organization? One hacker, and bam, every college loses their website, email, etc. It would be much wiser to have them managed by multiple organizations, so if one is hacked, only some of the colleges lose their network resources, rather than every single one.

Yeah. They should do that.