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What a crazy story. If the timelines are accurate there was an extremely small chance of this happening. Bad luck all around. My site is still down, guess i'
by pdenya 16y ago
What a crazy story. If the timelines are accurate there was an extremely small chance of this happening. Bad luck all around.
My site is still down, guess i'm in the unlucky 1%.
- ReinH 16y agoCan you give us more details at help.phpfog.com please? (apologies if I'm breaking HN etiquette)
- jacques_chester 16y agoMurphy's extended laws: * It will go wrong at the worst possible time. * If there are 4 possible ways for it to go wrong and you prevent all of them, it will go wrong in a 5th way.
- hitonagashi 16y agoYou don't hear about the 99% of the attempts that were successfully foiled by good coding practices/security audits, so given that we are hearing about a security breach at a competent firm, the likelyhood of it being a black swan event is probably fairly high.
- Legion 16y agoYou also don't hear about the attempts that were successful and unbeknownst to the hacked service provider.
- greendestiny 16y agoYeah but the problem with 'things planned for the near future' is that they have a tendency to stay in the future until something like this happens.
- 16s 16y agoYes, and after the fact, they sound like excuses (even when they are true and they are not meant to be excuses as in this case).