The affected blogs include American Liberalism Project, BeThink, Blue Hampshire, Blue Jersey, Blue Mass. Group, Minnesota Progressive Project, My Left Wing, Never In Our Names, Pam's House Blend, RadicalRuss, Swing State Project and West Michigan Rising and other mostly state-focused political blogs of note. "I wish I could see a bright side to this," blogger Pam Spaulding, founder, editor and publisher of Pam's House Blend, told PageOneQ. "It's incredible that years of hard work can be destroyed in a flash, but we're in the digital age and there are people motivated to silence voices through malicious acts. I'm hopeful that data will be recovered..."
"I wish I could see a bright side to this," blogger Pam Spaulding, founder, editor and publisher of Pam's House Blend, told PageOneQ. "It's incredible that years of hard work can be destroyed in a flash, but we're in the digital age and there are people motivated to silence voices through malicious acts. I'm hopeful that data will be recovered..."
And I must say, it is the responsibility of the server owner/operator to protect against script kiddies, and to keep protected backups of all material to enable recovery in case of attacks. Whining after the fact, and hoping to catch the guilty is unlikely to be very productive as sploiters are generally hosted in countries making such investigations difficult, and located all over the world.
From some info going over Dkos yesterday, it seems these sites had not spent adequate money on their programmers and server administrators to do the job done right. (In fact, it is just one guy, working half-time, and having problems getting paid promptly.) So perhaps they should look inward, rather than outward, to fix their problems, rather than assign blame.
Pam;s House blend at least is considering its hosting options keep to the Fen Causeway
As someone pointed out, it's a bit of an amateur effort, not helped by some people not paying bills. keep to the Fen Causeway
