Fancy Dan

I see the updates are already starting to appear, wondering what happened to TWHT this last week.

Truth is, I have no clue. I received an email from Chain on friday saying the site was down, and had been for a couple hours.

I logged into the admin panel to see an error saying that there was an "unfinished upgrade", which could mean one of two things; our database blew up or there was a security breach.

As far as I could tell, judging by the server's error log, either the site or our server's security was compromised. I'd been working for the past 2 days with our hosting company to restore the site as best i could, but I had no proper backup of the site since August last year so I had to manually repair the database to prevent data-loss. I've now upgraded our software (hence the new look), upgraded our database and took a good, complete full backup of the site.

I'm going to be working with Chain to get a system in place to maintain backups so that if this were to happen again, recovery time will be a minimum.

Keep it classy,
- Dan

STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP—TWO BILLS IN CONGRESS UNDERMINE THE PRINCIPLES OF THE WEB

American Censorship Day: November 16, 2011
On November 16th, the "Stop Online Piracy Act" will be heard in Congress. This legislation, in addition to the Senate's "Protect IP Act," completely undermine and fundamentally change the core principles of the Web. They have the potential to radically alter or shut down sites like YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr 4chan, others --even us--, and many future companies to follow.
See americancensorship.org for more and help us stop these bills from becoming law.

Sorry to alarm you... we haven't been hacked, but you've probably noticed the "Stop Censorship" bar over our logo... Normally, I don't use TheWalls to post about politically motivated things like this, but this is an issue near and dear to me... I work in an industry powered by the internet, and today, Congress holds hearings on the first American Internet censorship system. This bill can pass. If it does the Internet and free speech will never be the same.

"These bills were written by the content industry without any input from the technology industry. And they are trying to fast track them through congress and into law without any negotiation with the technology industry."

- Fred Wilson (Union Square Ventures)

Whats the worst that can happen?

Website Blocking:
The government can order service providers to block websites for infringing links posted by any users.

Risk of Jail for Ordinary Users:
It becomes a felony with a potential 5 year sentence to stream a copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, even if you are a totally noncommercial user, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook.

Chaos for the Internet:
Thousands of sites that are legal under the DMCA would face new legal threats. People trying to keep the internet more secure wouldn't be able to rely on the integrity of the DNS system.

Yes, but how will this affect TheWallsHaveTeeth.net?
Once the government has the power to censor websites, whats stopping them from just censoring copyright infringing websites? This bill opens the door for many, many more ridiculous and evil things to happen.

Please, I plead with you, fill out the form here to contact our congressional leaders and stomp this bill out!!


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Technically its not her Birthday yet, shes still stuck in yesterday 'cuz of being in Arizona and stuff... but here in Michigan its your birthday! YEAHHH!

in this topic, we post pictures of things that scare us and other members try to guess what our fear is.

ready? go.

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No words! NO WORDDSSS!