Liberator, I must agree with Tex. If a hacker gains control of someone else's computer, if you strike back, you would be hurting the owner of such computer, instead of attacking the hacker. That means that the owner of that computer might sue you. You lose, hacker wins twice, for hackers use to cover their steps.
Computing is not street fighting. In war games everything is solved with a gun, you shoot back if fired upon. In the real world, things are more complicated than that.
Hacking and defacing a website usually is not the work of a skilled hacker. It is usually the work of a hacker unskilled minion, which are called "lamers" by computer experts.
Destroying is not as challenging as creating. If you create addons, instead of thinking about destruction, you are likely to become a better expert and you save yourself from trouble. I might want to encourage you to create.
Hackers may deface and destroy a host, but the talent of people to create cannot be defaced.
External backups has nothing to with security. Hopefully it's just understood as a Really Sensible Thing to Do!
That is untrue, my friend. In case a hacker sends a hurricane against the server, a good backup gives the security of having the site elsewhere. :lol:
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TO: Liberator
I forgot to add... You do not need to try to act yourself against those lamers.
There are people with enough expertise here to handle the situation.
Let experts to take care of the matter.
That way you sit and rest asured that behind scenes, lamers will be having a very bad time.
Orbiter community had waves of attacks in the past, attempts to deface forums and hosting, and we are here.
We have seen from the most childish types of attacks to other more advanced types of attacks. We are still here.
