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  On July 7th our ISP suffered a hard drive crash because a 13-year-old
hacker got into their system.  While our incoming and outgoing e-mail was
still acessible (but only by using a reader like Eudora - direct logins
using the normal menu system would not work), some 2400+ users' fileshells
and thier web pages were lost.  The hard drive containing them was `rendered
asunder' -- to borrow a biblical description of the drive's destruction.

  Rumor has it the kid doesn't seem concerned, or to realize what it was
he's done.  His mother is said to show a similar lack of concern.  The
usual: "What do you want me to do with him?"  Being a minor he'll probably
get off `scot-free,' you'd expect.

  Alachua FreeNet (our ISP) had backups for Aug 97 and Jan 98; but the Jan
98 backups turned out to be corrupted.  Since our account was created Nov
97, they had no backups for us.  I had backups for Mar 98 but, as the luck
usualy goes, my OWN backup turned out to be degraded or otherwise unusable.
I had to use an old work copy that I luckily from back in Jan 98.

  Meanwhile, it seems most of the AFN Admin have disbanded, and they are in
the process of looking for replacements to train.  I suppose this means that
if something happens again, repairs will be slow-going.

  Its been a little over a month, and they FINALLY opened up our home
directory for us so that we could upload our own backups, which we did.

  But, the Alachua County (Fla.) SKYWARN web page is now back on the air.

  We apologize if this disappearance caused anyone any problems.  We hope it
doesn't happen again.

Todd Sherman/KB4MHH

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|    Alachua County SKYWARN  -//-  E-mail:  skywarn@afn.org    |
|          -//-  http://www.afn.org/~skywarn/  -\\-            |
|            Gainesville, Alachua County, Florida              |
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