OpenG defaced!

[X.]

As of today 1:40PM PST, Open G appears to have been defaced unless I miss the purpose of "graphical" programming...

[smercurio_fc]

Seems OK. It's now 3:54 Central "I have no idea anymore whether it's daylight savings - all I know is that I had to change my clock once again for no good reason" Time.

I'm assuming you're referring to openg.org, and not openg.com.

[X.]

Yep, some good Samaritan fixed the issue. I had no idea that the OpenG.org site had been deprecated!

[JÞB]

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@smercurio_fc wrote:

Seems OK. It's now 3:54 Central "I have no idea anymore whether it's daylight savings - all I know is that I had to change my clock once again for no good reason" Time.

I'm assuming you're referring to openg.org, and not openg.com.

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Saverio,

  We "Save" daylight in the spring, summer and autum.  (you know, when there is an abundance of it)  In the winter, when we don't get much sun, we are not on "Daylight Saving"- though, come to think, maybe the whole concept is back-a$$wards?  B. Franklin was not allways right!

(I am an amature horologist.  Please, don't tell my wife.)

[RavensFan]

I'd argue you are saving daylight in the summer.  You are moving the daylight hours from the early morning where they would be wasted because you would be sleeping, to the late evening when you can use the daylight because you are still awake and haven't gone to bed yet.

[mc_vibraphone]

I happened by the OpenG site and it's either still defaced or been defaced again (15 May 2012). Hopefully someone with admin rights can clear it up.

[altenbach]

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@tom McManus wrote:

I happened by the OpenG site and it's either still defaced or been defaced again (15 May 2012). Hopefully someone with admin rights can clear it up.

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Form the changelogs, it seems that jg's cleanup on Apr 7 only lasted about 3 days. This site seems to be as secure as a tent without roof. 😞

[altenbach]

The main page has been restored, but there is still considerable rot below the surface.

It seems new users sign up every few minutes parking pages to be spamvertized. Look at the pages created by the new users. Look at the "orphan" pages, for example.

[rolfk]

It's amazing that someone spends even one second of his time to get something like this posted even if it is just to setup a bot program that does it! The text is incohemprehensible, the spamvertized product unclear, and in the case of OpenG the pages are unaccessible for most search engines that want to deliver a minimum service to it's users in order to generate some income from it's own advertizers. Dumbo is the least of the words that come to my mind.

[altenbach]

openG is still heavily used as a free-for-all depository for spam links. Why is it not secured?

Users are still signing up every few minutes and dumping garbage.

Again, look at the recent changes. This is just the activity for the last ~30 minutes. 😞

 

I don't know what the robots configuration is, but content like this might seriously push it down on the search engine rankings. It might even get blacklisted by certain security software.