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Welcome back,
I know I said 12:00pm on Wednesday, but I got bored waiting for you all ;)
Its been a funny sort of week for Telford and Wrekin Council Watch, one that will go down in the history of the site as "Amusing, but a little bit of a council job" ..... on Sunday evening people managed to access the
Administration area of the site using a known vulnerability in one of the plugins that is used here - the plugin has now been removed. The most amusing thing was that they left subtle hints like "SHOULD USE APACHE", "DONT USE WINDOWS" and the all time favourite amongst script kiddie hackers "0wned" - oh how I laughed when I read them - more so that as they had access to the Administration area, they would have known if they had looked around that they were on an Apache Linux server to begin with - I wont ask if the council have outsourced their hacking department to another company mainly due to the fact that this is the type of job I would have expected from the council itself, shoddy, irresponsible and downright sad.
We know who did the misdeed and have their IP address, and all commands issued from their computer, strangely enough it comes from a computer system that accessess the site with alarming regularity, maybe a fan, maybe a pilchard - who knows ;) I WILL be doing something about it - the Computer Misuse Act carries a maximum sentence of ten years in prison - I aim to go through to the hilt with this. Whoever did this is lonely, oh so lonely, maybe they have nobody for their own - sorry I am getting carried away here :) but naming names in the public realm isnt what this site is going to do.
Suffice to say I have heard the same name mentioned twice from different sources - can anyone say dirty politics, do the politicians in Telford actually have a spine or a pair of balls? They seem to not to be competent to do their own dirty work, but prefer to get others to do it for them. Transforming Telford? Into what? A shit tip of inept councillors who are unable to think clearly for themselves or act outside of the box - Andrew Eade should be well ashamed of himself, sitting in my house a few years ago saying to me that he thought TWCW was a good idea and that he supported it and would openly talk to all of the electorate - arrogance or what - then again what do we xpect from someone who looks like Moe Szyslak - the bartender from The Simpsons - wasnt Moe actually a letch as well as underhanded and doing backroom deals behind closed doors? Nuff said in my opinion.
Some of you know, that John Franklyn is ill at this present time and not able to do as much as he would like with the site - to kick a man when he is down like that is nothing short of disgusting and cowardly, showing none of the compassion that he has shown others - even councillors. At this present time I have decided to step upto the bat and take on the running of the site temporarily until John is back on his feet and able to ensure that Telford and Wrekin Council Watch continues to be a success. I am sure you all wish John your best and hope he gets better soon - hes an amazing guy and I was lucky to have him as the Best Man at my wedding :)
To this end a management team is being setup to take on parts of the site and areas within it, and to also ensure that content remains relevant, useful and entertaining - newsfeeds from other sites will also be encompassed as well. This is mainly due to the fact that I have a full time job and family, and cannot give the site 12 hours a day as it demands, and mainly because the sites so big (it runs to something like 10,000+ pages and at least 1,500 additional file attachments) I need another pair of hands.
We are back, we are not going to be silenced, and I hope for one thing the council are taking note - its time to kick ass - I hope they have big shoes on.
Yours
John Shaw-Miller
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