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This is pure speculation, but reasonable speculation:
After IGN and Gamespy merged, all of the Gamespy employees that we dealt with from time-to-time got the axe, and were replaced by their IGN equivalents.
The Gamespy guys knew what was going on with the systems that they designed, while the IGN guys did not have a clue.
Cue hack. Severe hack. All of the dynamic servers (I think there were 5 or 6) were compromised. All data could be read or modified at will. The hackers had full access for at least a month.
One of the IGN guys looked up from his usual task of watching porn, realized that they'd been hacked, said "Oh shoot," and spilled coffee over his crotch. He was hospitalized for severe swelling, and was eventually divorced because his wife found out about the porn he watched at work. Not the fact that it was porn, but the fact that it was Barney the Purple Dinosaur Porn.
Cue shut down.
The IGN guys, not understanding anything about the current system, decide to re-build the dynamic servers from scratch. They thought this would only take a week or two.
But, the IGN guys forgot that they were incompetent, and so the process took over a month. Shortly after the servers were back up, and *just* after we moved, they decided to block all Perl access because they did not set up the servers in a secure manner. As The Dink Network runs on Perl scripts that I've designed, I would either have to re-design everything in PHP (something that would not be feasible) or move to a different host anyway.
After IGN and Gamespy merged, all of the Gamespy employees that we dealt with from time-to-time got the axe, and were replaced by their IGN equivalents.
The Gamespy guys knew what was going on with the systems that they designed, while the IGN guys did not have a clue.
Cue hack. Severe hack. All of the dynamic servers (I think there were 5 or 6) were compromised. All data could be read or modified at will. The hackers had full access for at least a month.
One of the IGN guys looked up from his usual task of watching porn, realized that they'd been hacked, said "Oh shoot," and spilled coffee over his crotch. He was hospitalized for severe swelling, and was eventually divorced because his wife found out about the porn he watched at work. Not the fact that it was porn, but the fact that it was Barney the Purple Dinosaur Porn.
Cue shut down.
The IGN guys, not understanding anything about the current system, decide to re-build the dynamic servers from scratch. They thought this would only take a week or two.
But, the IGN guys forgot that they were incompetent, and so the process took over a month. Shortly after the servers were back up, and *just* after we moved, they decided to block all Perl access because they did not set up the servers in a secure manner. As The Dink Network runs on Perl scripts that I've designed, I would either have to re-design everything in PHP (something that would not be feasible) or move to a different host anyway.
