All my source code gone!
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
Terrible. Outsourcing your server is a bad idea, and outsourcing the storage of sensitive information is an epic bad idea (think tax-information, banks, medical records, aw - the cloud-horrors that are still awaiting us!) As soon as you outsource your server, you're no longer in control and depending on the other party.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
You still have your local copy of your source code ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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Terrible. Outsourcing your server is a bad idea, and outsourcing the storage of sensitive information is an epic bad idea (think tax-information, banks, medical records, aw - the cloud-horrors that are still awaiting us!) As soon as you outsource your server, you're no longer in control and depending on the other party.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
Bearing in mind the grief we are having getting our network back up I am keeping all my source backed on my local hard drive, dropbox & memory sticks!! :(
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Terrible. Outsourcing your server is a bad idea, and outsourcing the storage of sensitive information is an epic bad idea (think tax-information, banks, medical records, aw - the cloud-horrors that are still awaiting us!) As soon as you outsource your server, you're no longer in control and depending on the other party.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
Agreed 100%. There's no way I'm putting my private information in the 'cloud'. Bearing in mind the frequency that 'reputable' companies are admitted getting done over (adobe, ebay etc.), how long is it going to be before people are stealing far more than your password?
Regards, Rob Philpott.
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You still have your local copy of your source code ?
I'd rather be phishing!
Yes, only recent projects. I deleted the very old projects.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
Their notice is something of a gut-wrenching read. It's very sad that people have lost their work, but also that there is no longer a future for the company which although I'm not familiar with looks like its been up and running for a few years.
Regards, Rob Philpott.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
Ouch, that sucketh. But just more evidence that "no one else but you can keep your stuff safe". I agree with the others that this whole "cloud" thing is a very bad idea.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
I just read the statement on their site. That truly sucks :( Whoever is responsible is an absolutely bastard and a coward.
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer) www.simonshugar.co.uk "If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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Terrible. Outsourcing your server is a bad idea, and outsourcing the storage of sensitive information is an epic bad idea (think tax-information, banks, medical records, aw - the cloud-horrors that are still awaiting us!) As soon as you outsource your server, you're no longer in control and depending on the other party.
Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
Eddy Vluggen wrote:
outsourcing the storage of sensitive information is an epic bad idea
But for the moment where all your local data is gone. In which case it might be quite interesting to have the data somewhere in the cloud.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Ouch, that sucketh. But just more evidence that "no one else but you can keep your stuff safe". I agree with the others that this whole "cloud" thing is a very bad idea.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
Keeping in cloud is redundancy against keeping them all on my home PC.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
It is a good thing you have back-ups.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
You mean the company you pay for this repository don't do backups? :omg: Change. Now. And demand your money back as well...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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You mean the company you pay for this repository don't do backups? :omg: Change. Now. And demand your money back as well...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It is a good thing you have back-ups.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
Put your claws away Ennis!
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
That should teach you all that USB drives, Private NAS drives and other personal backup / repositories were a good idea and that the cloud is a bad idea.
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You mean the company you pay for this repository don't do backups? :omg: Change. Now. And demand your money back as well...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
There is no guarantee it won't happen at another company. I should have chosen the option to pay monthly, instead of annually. My yearly subscription ends at October. I'll see if I can get my remaining money back.
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I put all my personal source code in private repository hosting. Yesterday night, I was working on a personal project and it failed to check in my code. I thought it was just routine system maintenance. Just now I went to the website and saw this notice[^]: The short story was a hacker failed to extort money from them and proceeded to delete all/most of the repo and snapshots. I think I cannot sleep tonight! :( They advertised Oracle was one of their customers. I wondered how much Oracle lost.
I wonder how "off-site" their backups really were if they could just be deleted from the control panel. I store all of my code in Azure, but I also have everything backed up at home and on my own "off-site" backups. I always maintain 3 copies of everything I can't afford to lose, on seperate media, services and locations, none of which are connected to each other. Unless an asteroid hits the East Coast and obliterates half the United States, it's impossible for me to lose everything like you have.
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That should teach you all that USB drives, Private NAS drives and other personal backup / repositories were a good idea and that the cloud is a bad idea.
The issue is not the cloud. The issue is trusting a single backup location (and I count "the cloud" as such). If you really care about backups, you should have different backup locations. And a cloud backup can still be a good choice for that as long as you still have your own copy somewhere.
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They did. But those got deleted too :rolleyes:
Yeah right - the "offsite backups" got trashed. I don't know about you, but my offsite backups aren't connected to my main system once they have been written: they are the backups-of-last-resort and you can;t keep those in a vulnerable location. What they mean is: "we don't do backups".
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952) Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
