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In Reply to: NDN was hacked posted by Remembering on March 23, 2006 at 17:16:36:
I don't know what happened before I came on board. There was a situation right after I installed the message board software that we use now. I had it setup so the IP addresses would not show in the messages, but I had the directory where the raw message data (including IP's) stored in the public webspace.
A Webmaster from another ex-member board found this error, and instead of privately mentioning it to me, went ahead and exposed some people's IP addresses to the public.
I quickly moved that directory out of the webspace, where it still resides today.
Of course, what everybody remembers is that NDN had a security problem several years ago. What everybody forgets is that it was a webmaster from another site, that is still around, that used advanced skills to explot that and expose personal information. The average person using NDN wouldn't have found that directory.
The long and short of it, was I fixed it, and it hasn't happened again.
The thing is, that billion dollar companies like Microsoft run websites that get exploited by hackers. How often do you read about thousands of credit card numbers getting out of some company website?
We are just unpaid voluteer hobbiests for the most part who run these websites in our spare time after work and on weekends. If an entire team of highly paid professionals can't guarantee that your private information won't be compromised over the web, then I doubt that any webmaster on an ex-member board will either.
All that said, an IP number isn't as big a deal as some of you might think it is. If you are on a dialup account, you get a new one every time you hang up and dial back in again. At the end of the day, all we really know about you is what you tell us.
