The Glass is Too Big
This site is currently partially offline due to security vulnerabilities in Wordpress.
This site has been running Wordpress since before it was forked off from b2. I used to love it. Unfortunately, over the last couple of years, that love has completely soured and the last few weeks pushed the issue to it's logical conclusion. I wish it had been on my timeline, but circumstances are what they are.
Basically, through the vulnerabilities in Wordpress, this site was hacked into back in June. It wasn't alone. A large number of Wordpress installs on the same hosting environment were also hacked into. That's one of the problems with running software that has ended up being popular: a security hole paints a target on a LOT of sites.
I fixed everything that the host said needed to be fixed to close the security hole. Then, today (a month later), I got warnings in both Firefox and Chrome that my site was "dangerous". Sure enough, the problems that I resolved are back.
Because my relationship with Wordpress has been souring for longer than the recent problems, I've been working on a replacement for Wordpress (code-named Panini), but it's not ready yet. As always seems to be the case, I need it before it's ready. So, I'm going to be piecing the necessary bits together as quick as I can to get the site back up and running WITHOUT Wordpress. First priority is to just tear the site down and get the "dangerous" warning removed in Google and the browsers.
Here's the plan and how you can expect to see things show up here on the site.
- Tear out the entire old site. - Done
- Put up this placeholder site explaining why the site's gone. - Done
- Get bare Panini up and displaying all of the old articles, without comments - Done
- Get existing comments up on articles. - Done
- Restore interactive features like posting new comments, etc. - Done
Update 2010-07-15:
I got the original articles all up and you can now browse by year/month as well. Use these URLs for browsing:
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Update: 2010-07-16
Search is now up and functioning. Search the content of this site below:
If you want more "realtime" status on where things are at, your best bet is to follow me on Twitter.
-J Wynia
