Tweets --

> This is to inform birdnotes.net users on Tweeters that the
> birdnotes.net server will be down for maintenance until
> Monday afternoon. Someone cracked the server on January
> 8th, which means that a clean copy of the operating system
> needed to be re-loaded.
>
> No need to worry about your birding data -- this is safe as
> it is backed up regularly. Also there's no indication that
> any birding data on the system were tampered with.
>
> The operating system has been restored but Don Baccus is
> taking the opportunity to add more memory and do some
> routine maintenance on the server over the weekend. He
> notes that this is the first down time in 18 months, so
> hopefully after Monday afternoon we can look forward to
> another 18 months of uninterrupted access to birdnotes.
>
> Sorry for the inconvenience!
>
Good birding,
Doug
>
> P.S. For those who are wondering why this sort of thing
> happens, apparently the most common explanation is that
> groups who are involved in software piracy make use of
> "innocent" servers as tools to shuttle their own data around
> in a way that is difficult for authorities to track.


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Douglas Canning
Olympia, Washington
dcanning at nisquallyestuary.org
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