Oct 13, 2009 Posted by David Torcivia on Oct 13, 2009 in Featured Articles, Site Info

H4×0r3d

Yes, the movie-inspired, internet stereotype really does come true. My website was recently hacked, for the third time in its colorful existence. Why would different hackers target me three times? Well I can’t go into my dark and mysterious past where I worked for the NSA disguising myself as CIA so I could be a double agent to the German hacking force who are world renowned for their formidable computer prowess ultimately led to this pinnacle by my own exploits which culminated in the imprisonment of many a pasty-faced teenager trying to play war games with a foreign terminal. Let’s just say that I cling to my mysterious nature like fog to a bad horror movie and leave it at that.

So what was lost? Everything. What was I able to recover? Some stuff. The recovery process is a work in process and much of the older material was easily recovered. My latest stuff, however, will take a bit longer. I was hoping to have everything repaired by the time I posted my next entry but the work of restoring is too slow and boring to finish in time. What now? Well, as you may or may not have noticed, the site underwent a redesign that hopefully doesn’t have as many bugs as the old style. This new theme should also make navigation simpler.

Looking towards the future, I’m going to continue restoring old work and start adding new stuff again. I hope to restart the daily download section and let it live up to it’s name. The world can always use more free, high-quality sound effects. Additionally, I have a new project nearing completion that I hope to have running by the end of the year. Keep checking here for more details.

Thanks for sticking around. Keep your firewalls nice and toasty.

~David Torcivia

UPDATE (Oct 13, 2009 01:18):

So all posts are now up. Many comments have been lost, I’m sorry but there were no backups made of these. The only thing remaining to fix is to adjust the new link locations for the old files so the pictures and other files can be found. This will not affect new posts nor any of the posts currently at the first several pages of the site. As I find the time I will repair the other files in a reverse chronological order. Thanks again for sticking through this all!

UPDATE (Oct 13, 2009 13:00):

All comments have been restored! The posting date for many of them is incorrect instead displaying the time they were restored but it’s better than nothing. Full steam ahead!