Re: News on AIOE's outage

Time to trigger the right-wing snowflakes again. Melt, snowflakes, melt!
On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 12:29:39 +0100, Don Spam's Reckless Son wrote:

> Is there any site (or Newsgroup) which carries details of the AIOE 
> situation?  Preferably a read-only one without all the self-indulgent OT 
> trolling.
> 
> What is known is that the Raid Controller failed catastrophically, 
> killing (at least) all of the transient data.  My impression is that the 
> backups were not as helpful as one would have hoped.
> Is AIOE going to make a comeback?  There have been outages before but 
> this one has lasted a month and counting.

I suspect sabotage. At this point, if Mr. Amoroso had simply started over
from scratch with all necessary hardware repairs and a blank-slate OS and
news-server install, it would be back to normal modulo reset article-
numbering, though for the past month the retention would have seemed less
than normal until it had spent a full month receiving articles into its
spool. From this day on though it would not have been obvious that anything
had happened.

If it's taking longer to bring it back than the most drastic possible case
for repair (i.e., total loss of all pre-existing data and the hardware
needing rebuilding), that can only mean that whatever knocked it offline
wasn't a one-and-done but is still actively impeding things, which in turn
suggests some type of denial-of-service attack. (The other, more disturbing
but less likely, possibility being that it was/is an inside job.)

Is anyone controversial known for posting through that server? IIRC kensi
used to use it and she has quite a long enemies list ... maybe one of them
thought she was still using it and launched this attack.

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