Coup d'Etat, or Lightness of Heart?
Attention!
In my frantic mid-morning attempt to re-download the computerized version of the Michigan Branch application so as to streamline my fervent attempt to Write Better Essays, I typed out the all-too-familiar address of Ye Olde Association, and was faced with something quite astounding...
It appears that the Telluride Association's website has been hacked!
I know quite little about principles of hacking and Haha-I-Now-Own-Your-Website-Cower-Mortals and all such things, but could someone tell me--is this some kind of strange or cruel joke erupting from within the Association, or is the website really under attack? What are the ramifications of this action?
Perhaps I am only going mad because it is 7h56 in the morning, and am hallucinating strange red-and-black signs of hacx0r victory when really our lovely Directory and those much-needed prompts are curled away and sleeping on that familiar cream-colored page. Someone please ratify my vision--do I wake or do I sleep?
Josh, is something rotten in the state of the Association?
For the rest of you who are scrambling/sweating/typing at a speed or pace formerely unknown to human fingers, or who are flinging about madly in attempt to siphon at least 35% of your soul into this House Application, you have all of my love and well-wishes. We shall be fine, I promise!
Hoping the Best for The Association,
Jessi.
In my frantic mid-morning attempt to re-download the computerized version of the Michigan Branch application so as to streamline my fervent attempt to Write Better Essays, I typed out the all-too-familiar address of Ye Olde Association, and was faced with something quite astounding...
It appears that the Telluride Association's website has been hacked!
I know quite little about principles of hacking and Haha-I-Now-Own-Your-Website-Cower-Mortals and all such things, but could someone tell me--is this some kind of strange or cruel joke erupting from within the Association, or is the website really under attack? What are the ramifications of this action?
Perhaps I am only going mad because it is 7h56 in the morning, and am hallucinating strange red-and-black signs of hacx0r victory when really our lovely Directory and those much-needed prompts are curled away and sleeping on that familiar cream-colored page. Someone please ratify my vision--do I wake or do I sleep?
Josh, is something rotten in the state of the Association?
For the rest of you who are scrambling/sweating/typing at a speed or pace formerely unknown to human fingers, or who are flinging about madly in attempt to siphon at least 35% of your soul into this House Application, you have all of my love and well-wishes. We shall be fine, I promise!
Hoping the Best for The Association,
Jessi.
posted by goodbye, goodbye at 4:54 AM
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A Brief Update:
My mad(z) computer(z) skillz have finally kicked in, (God Bless Thee, AP Java Programming!) and adding a /default.html to the Telluride Association's address brings one to what appears to be a 100% intact Association website.
The hacker-sign-of-victory is only a splash page, and as to whether that is in accordance or defeats the chief principles of hacking websites, I defer to Mr. Higuera for an answer.
The Association is Safe?
I had not considered that there was any system of etiquette to such patterns of behavior, but, risking all gravity, I must say that (though surely annoying for the Association), the etiquette seems sort of...neat.
Boy In My Three-Person English Class, Remarking on Sexual/Gender Issues as Related to Characters' Rapid Shifts of Sexual Orientation in D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow:
"What do they call those guys who wear the tight girl pants and have the long hair? What do they call them? Emos? Are they emos?"
I do believe I fell out of my seat laughing. Tears were shed.
Point well served, Adam.
Apparently, "babcan_"
"own3d" the system. I am not, however, competent in international flag identification, so I am not sure of his/her origins or whereabouts or why, exactly, the Telluride Association's website would be a significant thing to conquer.
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