Should I take it as a compliment that somebody took the time to hack my online archive of articles? It’s still pretty irritating. Whatever the twisted motivations of the hacker, my web guardians and I are now figuring out how to repair the mess. My apologies to anyone seeking an article.
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"Celebrated curiosity monger"
Carl Zimmer writes about science regularly for the New York Times and magazines such as Discover, where he is a contributing editor and columnist.
He is the author of twelve books, the most recent of which is Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed. His website is carlzimmer.com and his address is blog at carlzimmer dot com .
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May 13th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Well, let’s see. You write extensively about evolution. You take on George Will and other anti-science folks who don’t do fact checking. You glorify tattoos. And so on. You seem to be a perfect target for right wing hackers. Not that I know of too many such hackers, but there must be a few.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I’m so sorry to hear of this. Please tell us you have them backed up somewhere?
May 13th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
It could be a less sinister hack: some bot bit decided the traffic to your site was worth hijacking, and went and did it, indifferent to whatever content may lie within.
May 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Any idea who it was? I hope you have backups. Good thing the bookcover poll is elsewhere!
May 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Ugh! That has got to be very annoing!
May 13th, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Right-wing hack used to refer to people like George Will, Bil l O’Reilly etc. Seems there is a new definition.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Looks like the server itself forgot how to present php. May not even be a hack.
Have your provider check out their install.
May 13th, 2009 at 1:24 pm
jb–Unfortunately, it is definitely a hack. We even know the IP address of the hacker, who got into my account at http://cutephp.com/ and even put some files there.
May 13th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Most service providers keep backups, even if they don’t say they do. Here’s hoping you’re on tape drive somewhere.
May 13th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
There’s some data from Feb ’08 here: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://carlzimmer.com/articles/index.php
May 13th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
“Right-Wingers” — the new all-purpose scapegoats. Server crash? Right-wingers did it. Can’t get a table? Right-wingers stole them.
Here’s a hypothesis: maybe you were hacked by mindless, knee-jerk leftists who have to shoehorn every incident into their personal set of political stereotypes.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Carl:
Well, that’s a shame. Sorry to be wrong, sir.
May 13th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Just about to log off- but like Michelle asked, does the mag back up data? It’ll right itself…
C.
May 13th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
I feel for you, Carl. It’s been going around–they got my author site, another author’s site that I designed, and sites for three writing groups I host on the same server. And guess who had to spend all day cleaning up the mess…
May 14th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Well this is an ugly bummer. As much as I’d like to see my own productivity on a par with Carl’s, I wouldn’t want it made to seem so by decreasing his apparent output. May the files soon return and the perpetrator caught and similarly … .well, DELETED would be a bit strong. But hacked, whacked, smacked, or something.
Best to you, Carl, and keep ‘em coming.
May 14th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Why did I say mag?? I meant to say site (it was late, honest! Lol!) and yes I can’t access this either withouth that command box thing.
Good luck either way Carl!
Claire