One of my favorite blogs has been hacked, perhaps fatally. It is a well-designed and well-maintained site, and represents hundreds of posts and eight years of work by one of the liveliest literary voices on the Web. I’m devastated on her behalf. Why would she be targeted? Is there any way for those who’ve created substantial content in a blog or a site to back-up their material? What could she and her Web host have done differently?
Adventures at Midlife
msmeta’s musings on the meaning of life at middle age — and beyond.
About me
I, msmeta, am a middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow writer, reader, wife and mother languishing in a dusty corner of the Great American West. I have spent several years lurking online, but I'm ready to join the conversation. I just hope I have something to say. I'm particularly interested in issues facing women at midlife. Look for posts on books, American culture, middle age, thrift shops, shoes, family, politics, religion and maybe even the occasional rant if I'm irritated enough.
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March 8, 2008 at 4:12 pm
The unfortunate experience of this blogger is a cautionary tale for any blogger who thinks what they write has lasting value.
We should always assume that our blog swill one day be hacked into, and all our work destroyed.
So it behooves us to save on another location, all that we publish.