Does anyone remember that someone (I think it was doggos) said in a sticky right before the domain change, that *if *something happens on this site that causes us all to have to re input our user name and password all over again, that such would have indicated that something bad has happened and not to come back? Shortly thereafter the domain change took place. I was trepidations about coming on here or posting after that. It was seeing familiar mods names in posts which gave me enough confidence to come back.
He said specifically, if you have to re-input the login and it accepts a bad password.
If the site changes hands, they likely won't have access to the original account data, so the way they would handle that is by accepting whatever your initial login is, assuming you provided the right password.
So the test is to enter the wrong password first and make sure it rejects it.
This did not happen at the domain switch, and incorrect passwords were rejected, which means the user account data was intact, which means unless "they" raided and obtained the servers that had all that data, the site has not been compromised.
Can you vouch for the uninterrupted physical and cyber security of the servers?
I realize that's asking a lot. I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I'm a bit paranoid after living through multiple platforms that promised free speech and respect for user privacy and then betrayed those principles in horrific ways.
At the time they had a reasonable explanation as to what happened (as far as I understood it). But if it really was infiltrated, that's probably how it would go down.. Not something obvious
Does anyone remember that someone (I think it was doggos) said in a sticky right before the domain change, that *if *something happens on this site that causes us all to have to re input our user name and password all over again, that such would have indicated that something bad has happened and not to come back? Shortly thereafter the domain change took place. I was trepidations about coming on here or posting after that. It was seeing familiar mods names in posts which gave me enough confidence to come back.
Have we been 🍯potted?
He said specifically, if you have to re-input the login and it accepts a bad password. If the site changes hands, they likely won't have access to the original account data, so the way they would handle that is by accepting whatever your initial login is, assuming you provided the right password.
So the test is to enter the wrong password first and make sure it rejects it.
This did not happen at the domain switch, and incorrect passwords were rejected, which means the user account data was intact, which means unless "they" raided and obtained the servers that had all that data, the site has not been compromised.
"Unless...'
We weren't, we still have control.
Hahaha...
Your username is very reassuring.
But seriously, thanks for responding.
How long have you been a mod?
Can you vouch for the uninterrupted physical and cyber security of the servers?
I realize that's asking a lot. I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I'm a bit paranoid after living through multiple platforms that promised free speech and respect for user privacy and then betrayed those principles in horrific ways.
Thanks for the clarification fren
At the time they had a reasonable explanation as to what happened (as far as I understood it). But if it really was infiltrated, that's probably how it would go down.. Not something obvious
Login still worked, it is/was the same back end.