On 9/6/06, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
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> Alan Dayley wrote:
> > The PLUG website is down.  It was hacked sometime early this morning.
> > (Joomla! and or it's addons is proving to be quite insecure.)
> >
> > I don't have time to do much with it right now.  It'll have to wait till
> > tonight.  Sorry about that.  Please be as patient as possible.
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> Site is back up, mostly.  There are a few things to restore, like the
> banners.  But, it should be hardened (thanks JD) better than before and
> has all the latest updates.
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> Thanks for all the suggestions and encouragement!
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> Alan
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> Edward Norton wrote:
>> Anytime you add a complex CMS like Joomla, etc, you have the
>> possibility
>> of security problems. The PLUG site really isn't all that expansive, >>
so what IS the problem with using HTML?
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> We left HTML to allow members to contribute to the site.  In the end, > we
have not had very many contributions from the general
> membership, for whatever reason.

I may not be [completely] keeping up, here (sorry),
but I thought that ("allow members to contribute to the site")
was what a wiki was for;
(also, an archive of the mail lists, such as this one...)
just 0.02,  ...from:
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Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org
Mike.L.Schwartz@gmail.com