Yep, some punk thought they wanted to spread more malware, so they found an exploit somewhere on the bowels of the CAL server and uploaded some nasty files. Since Dr. Kaufman is out of the country, it’s going to take until some time after May 25th (when he gets back) to get the entire thing sorted out.
This is the second major hack against the project this past year, and the last hack resulted in the old perl implementation of DJPA being pulled down indefinitely with no replacement. With so much 20+ year old code that’s up there I’m yearning to get some of the new stuff I’ve written up and running; however, due to a funding shortage, the entire project is kinda puttering in place right now.
If you have any emergency lexical inquiries (i.e. things that cannot wait until the CAL is fixed), feel free to send them my way via email.
Peace
-Steve
That’s awful – sorry to hear about this. Who would do such a thing? I didn’t realize that there were “Anti-Aramaic Cyber Terrorists” in existence. 🙁
If it was only that *focused*.
Usually this type of hacking doesn’t care a whit about the content of the websites it hits. All they were enticed by was the CAL’s pagerank, it’s number of monthly visitors, and oodles of really old code to poke at for holes in order to spread their viruses.
There was a similar case if “ignorant” hacking back when I was still working at Rutgers. One of the Deans’ computers was compromised and the immediate worry was that whoever did it was after sensititive files. It turns out they didn’t even realize who they hacked. All they wanted was space to store their rather sizable collection of porn. 😛
Peace,
-Steve
there is something new??
So far, no news.
Peace,
-Steve
hey steve- figures, just when i needed to look something up there. anyway, what lexical info do you have on the root het qoph lamed (chaqal)? or potentially he qoph lamed (in case my eyes are seeing poorly the script at hand).
you can mail me if you like. jwest ‘at’ highland ‘dot’ net
@Jim
Should be in your inbox now. 🙂
Peace,
-Steve