Comrades
The Daily Blog was hacked yesterday and that is why you saw a maintenance page for most of the day.
The hack was very sophisticated and very tricky.
Thank you to everyone who reached out, these moments are always a mix of infuriation and terror.
We can’t point the finger at who did it, but we can see trends.
Whenever we criticise China, we get cyber attacks.
Every time we criticise Israel, we get cyber attacks.
Every time we criticise Russia, we get cyber attacks.
Every time we post out how racist NZ is, we get stupid cyber attacks.
Every time we have a go at NZ First’s weird Qanon antivaxx culture war bullshit we get really dumb cyber attacks.
Every time we criticise woke overreach we get cancelled.
This hack on us yesterday was a lot more sophisticated and I would be surprised if it didn’t originate offshore.
We have a new page design up and running in the interim, there will be updates made to it for the rest of week as we iron out all the damage caused and tweak it for TDB readers.
Obviously this all costs and arm and a leg being offline so if you are in a position to donate – please do into our bank account 12-3065-0133561-56
You never know how important critical media voices are until you lose them!
Cheers
TDB Team
How silly to hack a website to shut down discussion. If more people listened rather then screaming from their tribal corners we’d be in a better place.
Sorry to hear this Martyn. In a sick way it proves you make a difference.
You must of hurt someones feelings Martyn, I’m betting its either Israel, or fossil fuel companies.
Sorry to hear.
Although I seem to increasingly not get comments published here, I appreciate your commentary on China and Russia as fairly balanced.
The NZ left is in danger of pursuing a China centric foreign policy and voices like yours are needed in that space more than ever.
Some people just can’t accept a plurality of worldview, thought and opinion
Glad to see your IT fellas have decent backups. One thing I would point out- in regards “We have a new page design up and running in the interim, there will be updates made to it for the rest of week”. If you’re asking for something to be customized in a WordPress setup, it’s a good idea to follow every feature request like “I would like a scrolling marquee of stories up the top” for example, with “as long as that doesn’t require a plugin to be added”.
The vast majority of WordPress breaches happen because of some random widely used plugin with flawed security that then gets exploited across every single site on the web that uses it as soon as the security flaw is discovered.
Sorry to hear this, Martyn.
You host some gaping orientalist orifices here, but you put in the mahi and your heart is in the right place.
There are malicious entities which will attack and bring down a website which is simply providing a platform for honest, informed debate. Then there are entities which will do that in response to a severe provocation. There is nothing you can do about the first category, but you can protect yourself from the second, Martyn, by refraining from gratuitous provocation.
People don’t like hearing the truth Martyn.
Assange anyone?
Some people want to take us all down all the time so we have to stay smart. This is OM stuff but pput up as I have met the perp and his wife I think; we need keep this tax drain in our minds; unpaid tax, docked wages, part of the bleeding of the country.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/518036/nelson-restaurant-ripped-off-employees-during-quiet-hours-must-pay-30-000 – 2024 May.28
The company, Mirac Limited, owned and operated by Omer Akbaba, was ordered by the ERA to pay $30,886.44 in wage arrears, holiday pay and interest to the three employees.
This before – https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/302135/tax-dodger-who-owed-more-than-$100k-sentenced – 2016 Apr.22
Omer Akbaba, a restaurateur whose wife is currently receiving hospital treatment, appeared in the Nelson District Court this morning.
He was sentenced to five months’ home detention and 120 hours’ community work for failing to pay income tax and GST amounting to more than $103,000.
He had earlier admitted charges of aiding and abetting Richmond company Mirac Ltd to mislead Inland Revenue by providing false information.
Judge Tony Zohrab said the offending was serious and, if others did the same, there would be no hospitals to treat the likes of Akbaba’s ill wife, nor would the country have schools or roads…
The judge spells it out well.
I think the actual bloke has shifted to Blenheim and a new restaurant. Very nice bloke, I met him but when a country (NZ) is corrupt it encourages those ‘getting ahead’ to push harder. It’s a lot of work in a cafe but not bad when others do it, for low or no wages.
It was probably the French,as we all know they are right wankers.
They were quite left at one time. And great little thinkers, Sartre etc. Yet also the harsh Foreign Legion and the Rainbow Warrior affaire. Still nobody’s perfect.
Another philosophy contest different from that of the Oxford University. I don’t know who won here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vV3QGagck
And featuring the great drinkers – I mean philosophy thinkers. It shows how the public’s imagination can be caught by a Monty Python song, a beer and a beautiful body, (but not like ‘the hacking’).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtgKkifJ0Pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQycQ8DABvc
Well it won’t be the Israelis because Damien is their honorary ambassador and he is doing a stellar job.
National will have paid for the hack with the 10 million the rich pricks gave them