Re: News on AIOE's outage

Nadegda wrote:
> 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.
> 

Five weeks later, it's gone and I very much doubt that it is ever coming 
back.  No news is not good news in this case.