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My views on the Fur Affinity hack as a computer professional
15 years ago
What are all you whipper snappers doing here...?
From the looks of everything that happened I've lost all faith in Dragoneer as a competent admin. The lack of transparency, lack of honesty with the users and, frankly, how the leaked documents are showing he actually runs the place makes me say, as someone who's college education focuses on information project management, he'd have been fired if he worked for me. Considering most all "news" on this fiasco is the rumor mill and the admins have pretty much been silent means he's probably in well over his head right now.
On the technical side Fur Affinity needs to be either taken down completely until fixes can happen or put into a "read only mode". I'd vote on the former since it would be the safest. Second, I'd notify New Dreams Network, LLC., the host of lulz.net, and request they take the site down for promoting criminal activity and do so with a lawyer in tow.
My few direct messages with Dragoneer have been friendly and related to how he handles the non-technical side of being an admin. And what little I've had didn't give me much faith in him. Mainly after the latest AUP update, which usually seem to be related to the legal environment regarding IP laws and, frankly, porn I asked if he'd ever consulted an attorney to help write them. His response was negative. The fact he's making policy largely based on avoiding legal problems and he's never consulted a legal professional... You get the idea.
On the system security design side the only people who should have access to a messaging system, ideally, should be the people directly involved in sending a receiving them and no-one else. And assuming this really began as an XSS violation just... Wow... Take the site down until you can fix it.
On the social side of being an admin (my specialty) it seems Fur Affinity is a clusterfuck. Penalties are unevenly given out with personal vendetta often being the sole logic behind an admin decision. Legally questionable things are apparently occurring by the admin's hands. And just how this whole thing is being handled... Let's just say if Google or Facebook did it, Congress would be investigating.
Anyway, I'm not going to leave - for now - since I take strong efforts to separate my Furry interests from day-to-day life. I view Fur Affinity almost like a "toy" website I go to. My "working" web-life is elsewhere.
On the technical side Fur Affinity needs to be either taken down completely until fixes can happen or put into a "read only mode". I'd vote on the former since it would be the safest. Second, I'd notify New Dreams Network, LLC., the host of lulz.net, and request they take the site down for promoting criminal activity and do so with a lawyer in tow.
My few direct messages with Dragoneer have been friendly and related to how he handles the non-technical side of being an admin. And what little I've had didn't give me much faith in him. Mainly after the latest AUP update, which usually seem to be related to the legal environment regarding IP laws and, frankly, porn I asked if he'd ever consulted an attorney to help write them. His response was negative. The fact he's making policy largely based on avoiding legal problems and he's never consulted a legal professional... You get the idea.
On the system security design side the only people who should have access to a messaging system, ideally, should be the people directly involved in sending a receiving them and no-one else. And assuming this really began as an XSS violation just... Wow... Take the site down until you can fix it.
On the social side of being an admin (my specialty) it seems Fur Affinity is a clusterfuck. Penalties are unevenly given out with personal vendetta often being the sole logic behind an admin decision. Legally questionable things are apparently occurring by the admin's hands. And just how this whole thing is being handled... Let's just say if Google or Facebook did it, Congress would be investigating.
Anyway, I'm not going to leave - for now - since I take strong efforts to separate my Furry interests from day-to-day life. I view Fur Affinity almost like a "toy" website I go to. My "working" web-life is elsewhere.
and no I wont get off your lawn... your grass feels so soft between my toes :p
For what I've noticed posting activity has dropped to maybe a quarter what it usually is.
hes only one guy and he looks after a site with over 450.000 users and a 1.000.000 page view a day, I'd like to see ANYONE do any better
Plenty of people could do better, hell tens of thousands of them are probably unemployed right now wanting a job.