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Long ago when the internet was fresh and new the company I worked for started a web page, and then sold the idea of a web page to several companies. Hosts were expensive, so we hired an outside "expert" to administer the site, and the computer itself was in my office. We had one of the first ISDN lines in the state, and we were 200 yards from the SW Bell switch so we had great speeds until they throttled it back. We had three customers sites and our own on the computer and no one had much traffic, but all of them had email with their own domain was was new and cool.
The host computer sat right next to my main system and I came in one morning and it had the hard drive running like mad. I turned on the monitor and it was a gambling site. We had been hacked and they put up a email spammer and gambling site. I reached over and turned the power off and said out loud, hack that as5hole. The admin guy took a few days to clean it all up and put in a real firewall. This was all in the fairly early 1990s as I remember.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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