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What the hell is my home town's newspaper doing on the front page of hacker news? I'd be lying if I didn't believe that they would do something this stupid. T

What the hell is my home town's newspaper doing on the front page of hacker news? I'd be lying if I didn't believe that they would do something this stupid. They recently put the site behind a pay wall and I can no longer catch up on hometown news as a result. Who ever running that business is an idiot.

travisglines 16y ago
nek4life, where are you from St. Jay? I'm from Littleton myself and was pretty dumbfounded when I found the Caledonian Record as the #2 result on the front page of HN. I actually just signed my grandmother up to their service here and all it is, is a paid subscription to pdf copies of their newspaper as they release it. Theres not exactly much to protect there and worst case scenario is that someone gets some free copies of the paper. I don't think its such a big deal for them to be a little lax with password security given what you get behind the security wall. (as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere ... which may be the real problem here)
- reemrevnivek 16y ago
  > as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere Most people do reuse passwords. That's the reason this is significant. It wouldn't be newsworthy if a service like this screwed up and made getting free copies of the hometown newspaper easy.
- nek4life 16y ago
  Yeah I'm from St. Johnsbury but now I'm currently living in Burlington, VT. I was in total shock seeing the caledonianrecord.com domain on the front page. They used to have the actual articles online so I'm surprised to hear that they switched over to publishing the pdf's instead but that probably makes sense as the staff doesn't have to web publishing skills (as easy as that seems to the people that are reading this.) The switching of the username and password baffles me but perhaps they gave out generated usernames and passwords to begin with so it wasn't such a big deal. Although I'm really questioning the logic right now.
  - Davertron 16y ago
    I'm from Johnson originally but now living in Essex Jct. Maybe it's time for a VT HN meetup :)
    - nek4life 16y ago
      Yeah that would be fun for sure. I've updated my HN profile and alluded to my email address within.
    - btucker 16y ago
      Yeah, definitely! Had no idea there were so many of us! P.S. Any Ruby folks in Southern VT (or S/W NH or N/W MA)? We'd love to hear from you! :) http://greenriver.org/people/jobs http://greenriver.org/people/jobs
      - dugmartin 16y ago
        There are quite a few of us out here in Western Mass - check out http://wmassdevs.com http://wmassdevs.com
    - timmaah 16y ago
      I'd be up for it. (I hide out in Jeffersonville)
  - moxiemk1 16y ago
    St. Johnsbury natives on Hacker News? Say it isn't so! Another one here. The Caledonian Record does many things that don't really make sense - I'm not completely surprised.
- michael_dorfman 16y ago
  Small world! I lived in Bethlehem and Franconia for many years, before moving to Vermont for a while (still along 302, though-- but I've been in Norway for the past 13 years or so. Never expected to see the Caledonian Record on HN.
- rograndom 16y ago
  I'm surprised about the number of Vermonters on here, but I guess a post like this would bring them out. I'm in Rutland myself, but have business in St. Johnsbury / Lyndonville.
mcovey 16y ago
Woah hello from Bethlehem NH
- btucker 16y ago
  Just passed through there for the first time a few weeks ago. Beautiful town you got there!
- michael_dorfman 16y ago
  "Whoa" is right. I used to live next to the Arlington Kosher Hotel... Hey: say hello to Roland for me, will you?
ecopoesis 16y ago
I wondered the same thing. I actually built the original Caledonian-Record site back in high school when the Caledonian was partnered with Helicon (anyone remember hcr.net? Oh the nineties). I was very relieved to see that the link wasn't some old embarrassment of mine from 1996.
- nek4life 16y ago
  Oh I remember Helicon... I can't remember what I was using at the time either Kingdom connection or I was still using the Socialism Online bulletin board. I bet the website looked spectacular back then in all it's glory ;)
lepht 16y ago
Whoa... Internet in the NEK now? The largest introduction of new technology I ever saw growing up in Walden was getting a paved road that wasn't the highway. I figured up there you guys were still busy wrapping copper wires to make your memory cores ;)
drzaiusapelord 16y ago
The Caledorian Record "IT" office 48 hours ago: "Wait Walter, what? I don't understand this email." "Turns out our $8/hr rent-a-coder destroyed the user table. All that is left are the passwords, which for some reason are in a different table in plain-text." "Crap. Wait, what are you holding?" "Its the hard drive from the server. I'm going to send it to one of those recovery places. The guy on the phone said that they could do a recovery for 10k." "What?! I'm not paying that much. Wait, doesn't the server need that drive?" "Dunno. It seems to still be working. Lots of lights flashed when I took it out, but I ignored it." "Fine, then what do we do. We can't tell people to log in with their passwords, can we?" "Why not? Its not like we'll be mocked by some roving gang of geeks. The passwords are still associated with their member IDs. We can just put in some bullshit about security and switching the username and password. We'll ignore what they type in as username!" loudly and in unison "Winning!"
mitchf 16y ago
Another STJ guy here absolutely shocked to see the Caledonian Record on hacker news. Beat LI!

travisglines 16y ago

nek4life, where are you from St. Jay? I'm from Littleton myself and was pretty dumbfounded when I found the Caledonian Record as the #2 result on the front page of HN. I actually just signed my grandmother up to their service here and all it is, is a paid subscription to pdf copies of their newspaper as they release it. Theres not exactly much to protect there and worst case scenario is that someone gets some free copies of the paper. I don't think its such a big deal for them to be a little lax with password security given what you get behind the security wall. (as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere ... which may be the real problem here)

reemrevnivek 16y ago
> as long as people aren't using that same password everywhere Most people do reuse passwords. That's the reason this is significant. It wouldn't be newsworthy if a service like this screwed up and made getting free copies of the hometown newspaper easy.
nek4life 16y ago
Yeah I'm from St. Johnsbury but now I'm currently living in Burlington, VT. I was in total shock seeing the caledonianrecord.com domain on the front page. They used to have the actual articles online so I'm surprised to hear that they switched over to publishing the pdf's instead but that probably makes sense as the staff doesn't have to web publishing skills (as easy as that seems to the people that are reading this.) The switching of the username and password baffles me but perhaps they gave out generated usernames and passwords to begin with so it wasn't such a big deal. Although I'm really questioning the logic right now.
- Davertron 16y ago
  I'm from Johnson originally but now living in Essex Jct. Maybe it's time for a VT HN meetup :)
  - nek4life 16y ago
    Yeah that would be fun for sure. I've updated my HN profile and alluded to my email address within.
  - btucker 16y ago
    Yeah, definitely! Had no idea there were so many of us! P.S. Any Ruby folks in Southern VT (or S/W NH or N/W MA)? We'd love to hear from you! :) http://greenriver.org/people/jobs http://greenriver.org/people/jobs
    - dugmartin 16y ago
      There are quite a few of us out here in Western Mass - check out http://wmassdevs.com http://wmassdevs.com
  - timmaah 16y ago
    I'd be up for it. (I hide out in Jeffersonville)
- moxiemk1 16y ago
  St. Johnsbury natives on Hacker News? Say it isn't so! Another one here. The Caledonian Record does many things that don't really make sense - I'm not completely surprised.
michael_dorfman 16y ago
Small world! I lived in Bethlehem and Franconia for many years, before moving to Vermont for a while (still along 302, though-- but I've been in Norway for the past 13 years or so. Never expected to see the Caledonian Record on HN.
rograndom 16y ago
I'm surprised about the number of Vermonters on here, but I guess a post like this would bring them out. I'm in Rutland myself, but have business in St. Johnsbury / Lyndonville.

mcovey 16y ago

Woah hello from Bethlehem NH

btucker 16y ago
Just passed through there for the first time a few weeks ago. Beautiful town you got there!
michael_dorfman 16y ago
"Whoa" is right. I used to live next to the Arlington Kosher Hotel... Hey: say hello to Roland for me, will you?

ecopoesis 16y ago

I wondered the same thing. I actually built the original Caledonian-Record site back in high school when the Caledonian was partnered with Helicon (anyone remember hcr.net? Oh the nineties). I was very relieved to see that the link wasn't some old embarrassment of mine from 1996.

nek4life 16y ago
Oh I remember Helicon... I can't remember what I was using at the time either Kingdom connection or I was still using the Socialism Online bulletin board. I bet the website looked spectacular back then in all it's glory ;)

lepht 16y ago

Whoa... Internet in the NEK now? The largest introduction of new technology I ever saw growing up in Walden was getting a paved road that wasn't the highway. I figured up there you guys were still busy wrapping copper wires to make your memory cores ;)

drzaiusapelord 16y ago

The Caledorian Record "IT" office 48 hours ago: "Wait Walter, what? I don't understand this email." "Turns out our $8/hr rent-a-coder destroyed the user table. All that is left are the passwords, which for some reason are in a different table in plain-text." "Crap. Wait, what are you holding?" "Its the hard drive from the server. I'm going to send it to one of those recovery places. The guy on the phone said that they could do a recovery for 10k." "What?! I'm not paying that much. Wait, doesn't the server need that drive?" "Dunno. It seems to still be working. Lots of lights flashed when I took it out, but I ignored it." "Fine, then what do we do. We can't tell people to log in with their passwords, can we?" "Why not? Its not like we'll be mocked by some roving gang of geeks. The passwords are still associated with their member IDs. We can just put in some bullshit about security and switching the username and password. We'll ignore what they type in as username!" loudly and in unison "Winning!"

mitchf 16y ago

Another STJ guy here absolutely shocked to see the Caledonian Record on hacker news. Beat LI!