Hacked Words
November 24th, 2005
Today was not only the wonderful holiday of Thanksgiving, but also the first time that WFME has been hacked.
After a tense hour of worrying about the fact that I didn’t have backups of my writing here and dealing with the wonderful people at Total Choice Hosting and my “breathing partner” Heather — I was able to bring the site back from it’s broken state, where trying to reach my site may have taken you to an unsavory DVD site involving, well, unsavory things.
So, if you tried to get here today and were surprised at where you ended up… Or you thought I may have let you down… Fear not. It was just the sad little WordPress plugin that I can no longer use (the subliminal one that convinces you I’m so damn funny) that was the reason for the security loophole.
WFME is back up and b3tt3R thAn 3v3R! (Okay, not better — but the same.)
(Update: This plugin may not have been the culprit after all, but something with my actual hosting service instead.)
Hello!, I just bumped into your blog and had a great time reading it! I hope you dont mind univited readers lurking into your postings. I particularly enjoyed the Kristy Mc Nichol posts! I had never heard of her in my life (im 26) until I saw Little Darlings like a year ago and the strangest thing happened, I sort of had an inmediate mini crush on her, lol, same thing happenned with Jodie Foster when I was like 11 or 12. Funny thing that both these actresses have their sexualities being questioned.. Maybe what I have is a “gay-dar” and I should question mine as well????
Anyway, Im sorry she wasnt very nice to you, maybe she’s had thousands of people asking to have their picture taken with her, but still….
I have 2 questions for you: Where in LA do you live that you keep running into celebrities? and What is the name of the supermarket you took Kristy’s pics at? Im not going to stand there and wait for her, lol, I live in Miami now, but I used to live in L A, …its just curiosity I guess… THANKS!!
Comment by Veronica — November 24, 2005 @ 11:00 pm
To answer your question, Veronica — I ran into Kristy McNichol at the Ralph’s in Studio City on Ventura Boulevard.
As for lurking in my posts — it’s fine as long as you put back everything the way you found it. And don’t finish the milk and put it back in the post. I hate when people do that.
Comment by Pauly D — November 24, 2005 @ 11:08 pm
you’re welcome.
again.
Comment by heather — November 24, 2005 @ 11:27 pm
Wow. You know you’ve truly arrived on the blogging world stage when people care enough to hack you. Congrats!
Comment by HighMaintenanceHussy — November 24, 2005 @ 11:46 pm
No worries, Pauly. Even in your brief absence, you managed to provide us with some excellent holiday gift ideas.
Comment by Jeff — November 25, 2005 @ 7:01 am
THANK YOU so much for posting despite the difficulties! That you thank you than you. (Throws arm around you in a big hard breast squishing hug)
did ya like that? How I made reference to your last post on this one? Oh, I know you like it, baby.
Comment by Margie — November 25, 2005 @ 8:12 am
Was wondering what happened…glad you got it all fixed.
Comment by annabel lee — November 25, 2005 @ 8:24 am
What plugin?
Comment by Paige — November 25, 2005 @ 11:06 am
As a WordPress user, I second the question, What plugin? Now I’m nervous. (But then again, the dozen family and friends who bother to check in probably won’t be hacking me anytime soon, but I’m still curious.)
Comment by Meghan — November 25, 2005 @ 11:10 am
The plugin was a “Post Teaser” plugin — it automatically had the WP system put a “continuing words” link at about 100 words into each post.
Now I’ve got to do it manually. Grr.
Comment by Pauly D — November 25, 2005 @ 11:25 am
damn. i missed all that fun?
Comment by kristine — November 25, 2005 @ 2:15 pm
I don’t even know if Wil Wheaton has been hacked! Welcome to the big time, buddy!
Makes me wanna back all my crap up. Not that I need to worry about being targeted, I’m just paranoid.
Comment by Kevin — November 26, 2005 @ 9:31 am