From: Ben West <westbywest-AT-riseup.net>
Date: 07 Jun 2006 17:31:43 UTC   (11:31:43 AM in author's locale)
To: dadaIMC Discussion <dadaIMC-AT-lists.dadaimc.org>, 	chicago-tech-AT-lists.indymedia.org

Mitchell,

I have encountered problems with losing module preferences (e.g. whether
captcha enabled or not) during dadaimc upgrades, if that could be a
possible cause.

Mitchell Szczepanczyk wrote:
> Chris,
>
> I can say this: The machine was brought down due to reasons unrelated to
> the uploads.
>
> Still, the uploads closely resembled those of the porn attacks before we
> had the capcha field installed for the media gallery upload page -- and
> which stopped when the capcha field was installed.
>
> It stands to reason (though remains to be confirmed) that the field was
> somehow disabled, however briefly, at or around the time of the machine
> collapse.
>
> I'll look into this and let you know what I find.
>
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>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 ChrisGeovanis-AT-aol.com wrote:
>
>> It would be good to explore how the porn was uploaded while the site was
>> down, as well as whether those uploads may have contributed to the crash.
>>
>> christine
>>
>> In a message dated 6/6/2006 11:44:40 AM Central Standard Time,
>> msszczep-AT-uchicago.edu writes:
>> The website is back up and running. It should be back to the status it
>> was before the downtime.
>>
>> Somehow, about 200 images of porn were uploaded during this downtime, or
>> near to it. I went ahead and deleted them all late last night.
>>
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