The LoTW site has been down for over a week since the ARRL was hit by a cyber attack last week.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-syste...ice-disruption
The LoTW site has been down for over a week since the ARRL was hit by a cyber attack last week.
https://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-syste...ice-disruption
LoTW? Never touch the stuff.
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Yeah. Understandably, there hasn't been a lot of transparency about this, and so gossip is filling the information vacuum.
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Logbook, you say?
...opens desk drawer, looks at Drake, Radio Shack and ARRL spiral bound logbooks...
Yep; still safe and secure.
WRT "hacks":
In terms of system security, you get what you pay for.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Despite its name, the LoTW was never intended to be a logbook. It's a way to confirm contacts. Since you have to upload contact info to LoTW, you already have the log info stored locally. Anyone who uses LoTW as their only way to keep contact info (and assuming they value that information) is stupid.Originally Posted by N8YX
Plenty do.
And I suppose the thing is still down.
"Everyone wants to be an AM Gangsta until it's time to start doing AM Gangsta shit."
Topic came up during the monthly club breakfast this AM.
Word is that it’s a ransomware attack, but on the ARRL’s ISP(s), not the League itself.
Regardless, the silence is deafening. And N2RJ is looking more and more prescient.
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Yes, it's still down. Perhaps people will learn their lesson, but I doubt it...
It's the ARRL. They're too arrogant to learn their lesson. "Regulation By Bandwidth" (2x) anyone?
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That’s why we need a new ARRL CEO and replace about 2/3 of the Bored, er, Board Of Directors.
Bur that topic should be a thread in it’s own right.
“Nobody is going to feel sorry for us. 90% of the people don’t care, the other 10% are glad it happened.” — Clint Hurdle, 2019
BAN THE DH!
Fudd's First Law of Opposition: If you push something hard enough, it WILL fall down.
Teslacle's Deviant to Fudd's Law: It goes in, it must go out.
Just remember: Abraham Lincoln didn't die in vain. He died in Washington, DC
Cutch 300!!!!!
“Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Trump golfed.” — Bernie Sanders
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