The emerging story of the destruction of our former weblog, and others in the same server
January 10, 2008 by rgeaton
The following from classicalanglican.net is one of two postings that begins to explain what happened to the Surrounded website and others who were being hosted by classicalanglican.net.
Are we not free in this nation to join in associations of like-minded people without fear of reprisal and violence from other associations of like-minded people, or from opposite-agenda individuals? Or from those who are supposed to be part of the same? Are we not free in the Lord to question and admonish and laugh at each other for the sake of the building up of the Kingdom of God without fear of demolition from others who claim to be part of that same Kingdom?!
One consequence of this action and from where the destruction came, is the freedom by those who are the victims and their adherents to question the Christian ethics of not only the individual, but also the ethics of those from whom the violator has learned, from where formation came: associates, friends, cohorts, parents, Sunday School teachers, ordained pastors, academic teachers, and more.
What did we lose that would cause such a response for the need for justice? Oh, just the record of our very relationships with each other in very trying times. Oh, just the wisdom and insight that was necessary in times of pain and vulnerability that was precious enough to be able to applied to new times of the same.
May the Lord bring these persons forward, may they repent, may their actions never be reproduced nor repeated.
Here’s the story:
We Were Nuked, But Good
Dear Readers:
Please read: “So long, and thanks for all the fish: An Anglican website opens a window (pun intended).”
Excerpt:
Then came the crash. It was bound to happen sooner or later and happen it did. A hacker who has since been traced to an Anglican office took us out for several days.And again in November 2007, except right down to rock bottom, wiping out (forever) months of data, blog-entries, and information. Deliberate. Destructive. Costly.
In retrospect, it looks like the CaNN servers had been under semi-constant attacks for a long period– whether from the same ‘Anglican office’ or not, we don’t know for sure.
Mark this: this was pure cyber-war (a fine & jail-worthy Federal crime within the U.S., prosecutable by the FBI) directed against CaNN, our hosted blogs, ourselves, our audience, freedom of speech & religion, just to mention a few targets.
Stay tuned for further details.”
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Not entirely. You have “wayback” archives up to April of last year:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://surrounded.classicalanglican.net
And just a reminder the diocese is still pointing to the wrong site…which makes this difficult to find
Nick,
Thanks for checking that out with archives. I’ll take a look myself.
The change was going to take place on the website but I gave them “webpress” rather than “wordpress”, and then the prep for Youth Convention hit hard. It should be changed early next week when our webeditor gets back.
RGE+
The emerging blessing is that this new website is more attractive than the last. Thanks be to God for such a hard working webmaster who has devoted so much time and energy to pulling our Diocese into the Cyberworld!
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The “Wayback Machine” is alternately scary and useful. Never, ever, ever, ever say anything you would later regret on the web. Almost all text is archived now. As prices drop video will get the same treatment.
I agree the new look is much better. WordPress is a wonderful program and has wonderful starter templates.