> Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:52:58 +0000 (Wed, 18:52 CST)
> Jerry A. Taylor submitted the following Information:
> Email xxxxxxx
> Company City of Tuttle
> Location Oklahoma
> Comments
> Who gave you permission to invade my website and block me and anyone else from accessing it???
> Please remove your software immediately before I report it to government officials!!
> I am the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma.
And the response:
> From: Johnny Hughes
> To: Jerry A. Taylor
> Subject: Re: www.centos.org - Contact Us Form
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:59:18 -0600
> I feel sorry for your city.
> CentOS is an operating system. It is probably installed on the computer
> that runs your website.
> We hope you are happy with it, since we produced it for free and you are
> able to use it without paying us ... and are even threatening to have us
> arrested for providing to you free of charge.
> Please contact someone who does IT for you and show them the page so
> that they can configure your apache webserver correctly.
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes,
> CentOS 4 Lead Developer
Figured out what happened yet, Encyclopedia Brown?
Yep: The city of Tuttle, OK, had a misconfigured/unconfigured site which was showing the CentOS default page. The City Manager of that August Berg thought "We've been hacked! We've been hacked by hackers with a bland corporate logo who left contact information! I MUST THREATEN THEM USING EMAIL!"
Click the link. It gets stupider.
My point is, you have to take the... uh... "violently ignorant" into account whenever you design things which can be public-facing.
It's been a problem in the past:
https://web.archive.org/web/20060427011138/http://www.centos...
> Thu, 23 Mar 2006 00:52:58 +0000 (Wed, 18:52 CST)
> Jerry A. Taylor submitted the following Information:
> Email xxxxxxx
> Company City of Tuttle
> Location Oklahoma
> Comments
> Who gave you permission to invade my website and block me and anyone else from accessing it???
> Please remove your software immediately before I report it to government officials!!
> I am the City Manager of Tuttle, Oklahoma.
And the response:
> From: Johnny Hughes
> To: Jerry A. Taylor
> Subject: Re: www.centos.org - Contact Us Form
> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:59:18 -0600
> I feel sorry for your city.
> CentOS is an operating system. It is probably installed on the computer
> that runs your website.
> We hope you are happy with it, since we produced it for free and you are
> able to use it without paying us ... and are even threatening to have us
> arrested for providing to you free of charge.
> Please contact someone who does IT for you and show them the page so
> that they can configure your apache webserver correctly.
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes,
> CentOS 4 Lead Developer
Figured out what happened yet, Encyclopedia Brown?
Yep: The city of Tuttle, OK, had a misconfigured/unconfigured site which was showing the CentOS default page. The City Manager of that August Berg thought "We've been hacked! We've been hacked by hackers with a bland corporate logo who left contact information! I MUST THREATEN THEM USING EMAIL!"
Click the link. It gets stupider.
My point is, you have to take the... uh... "violently ignorant" into account whenever you design things which can be public-facing.