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Ask Slashdot: My Host Gave a Stranger Access To My Cloud Server, What Can I Do? 176

Posted by samzenpus
from the was-that-the-wrong-thing-to-do? dept.
zzzreyes writes "I got an email from my cloud server to reset the admin password, first dismissed it as phishing, but a few emails later I found one from an admin telling me that they had given a person full access to my server and revoked it, but not before 2 domains were moved from my account. I logged into my account to review the activity and found the form the perpetrator had submitted for appointment of new primary contact and it infuriated me, given the grave omissions. I wrote a letter to the company hoping for them to rectify the harm and they offered me half month of hosting, in a sign of good faith. For weeks I've been struggling with this and figure that the best thing to do is to ask my community for advice and help, so my dear slashdotters please share with me if you have any experience with this or know of anyone that has gone through this. What can I do?"

Comment: Fascinating (Score 4, Interesting) 98

by JeffSh (#39300581) Attached to: The Numbers of a Life

I find this fascinating. What I find even more fascinating is how can the man sustain such a momentus amount of activity while maintaining a family? Seriously, he works every waking hour of every day, with no interruption of email activity except dinner and sleep... Where does his family fit in? In my case, my wife won't let me, so perhaps this is just my unique situation. Anyone else have commentary on family life vs work/passion life?

Comment: Re:Still continues to be an asshole (Score 1) 576

by JeffSh (#38528172) Attached to: World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side

He has the typical east coast bravado and dismissive atitude. I don't mean to stereotype EVERYONE from Boston/New York area, but that whole area is infused with people who are just mean. The only way they are equipped to work with other people is through a method of communication that involves a complete lack of tact and understanding.

Ok that is not entirely fair, but it is fair to say that the east coast is where I usually find people like this. Pushy, dismissive, self centered etc.

Comment: technically unfeasable (Score 4, Insightful) 263

by JeffSh (#38067312) Attached to: Steve Jobs Wanted an iPhone-Only Wireless Network

This would not have been feasible, which is why it didn't work. the idea of a carrier pushing through a wifi network with enough coverage space is laughable. The 3g/4g wireless spectrum operates entirely different than wifi because wifi is limited in many ways..

The point is, we can all sit around and throw ideas and himhaw back and forth, but if things don't pass engineering/financial spec the don't get done. Applauding Jobs as a visionary for an idea that failed on technical and financial merit is kinda stupid.

Comment: rDNS bad (Score 1) 301

by JeffSh (#37703718) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is Reverse DNS a Worthy Standard For Fighting Spam?

Many email servers do not have rDNS, therefore it is not advisable to filter based on a lack of rDNS alone.

It can be argued that it should have an rDNS, but if they don't, you have no control over that since it's their system. Then you'll be spending way too much of your time tweaking spam filters and creating white lists, contacting the sending company's administrators...

It's just a bad idea, don't do it.

That said, I prefer SaaS email spam filtering like Symantec's Messagelabs. (Disclosure, I am an ML partner)). I like this service because I don't have to worry about managing it. It saves me a lot of time.

Comment: Re:sure looks like she was misinterpreted (Score 1) 303

by JeffSh (#37511648) Attached to: The Mythical Tunnel Between CERN and Central Italy

From the italian press release: "Alla costruzione del tunnel tra il Cern ed i laboratori del Gran Sasso"

It seems the word "tunnel" is shared between English and Italian. That said, the cultural context and definition /could/ be different, meaning instead not a literal tunnel but ... ahh whatever.

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