To make things a bit clearer (Score 2)

All- First off I would like to thank all of you for the kind comments within this thread. The reason we started this website was for everybody in the security/technology community. This all started as a hobby site and the staff at Attrition.org had a lot of fun with it and tried to create a place where one might go to learn something. Anyhow, I could go on and on about the whole history and how everything formed but I'll cut to a few points and hopefully make things much clearer. 1. Money had no hand in the decision here. We all have jobs during the day and this mirror was totally absorbing our personal time. Many of us would go hours and hours reviewing sites and making sure they were valid on top of our workload. This is a hobby site and a hobby site implies one would have fun doing it regardless of being paid or not... Many of us wanted to do other things with our time but we couldn't cause we had to sit in front of the computer for 10 hours to validate mass hacks all day. It gets exhausting after a while. 2. The hack verifications were automated using a script (that both Jericho and Munge tinkered up)but for historical purposes and for statistical purposes we had to verify each and EVERY hack that came through. Another words, we needed to see with our own eyes that the site was hacked or the statistics and mirror would not be valid. So, we could either make our lives easier by not validating the hacks and basically taint our stats and work or we could put forth the effort and make something useful. Again, if your going to do something you might as well do it right rather than fall short. 3. Other sections of the site that were put on the back burner will finally get the attention that they deserve (this I am personally happy about). 4. THE SITE IS NOT CLOSING DOWN... I think i've read a few instances where journalists had said that Attrition.org was shutting down. We are only doing away with the mirror. The decision to keep the mirror on site is still to be determined. Anyhow, I will end it here... I just thought that everybody HERE deserved some insight due to the fact that the site is for this community. -Modify Attrition Staff [e-mail]