Is this the end for AVSIM?
PRESS RELEASE: AVSIM Hacked!!
Tom Allensworth, CEO and Publisher of AVSIM, today issued the following announcement; “We regret to inform the flight simulation community that on Tuesday, May 12, AVSIM was hacked and effectively destroyed. The method of the hack makes recovery difficult, if not impossible, to recover from. Both servers, that is the library / email and web site / forum servers were attacked. AVSIM is totally offline at this time and we expect to be so for some time to come. We are not able to predict when we will be back online, if we can come back at all. We will post more news as we are able to in the coming days and weeks. END
Best Regards,
Tom Allensworth
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OMG you cant be serious!!!!
If they dont come back, well........its not gonna be pretty.....
Why would anyone want to destroy that site??
Someone with too much time on their hands
Lets get avsim back up and running.
I have a donate button to them on my webboard sidebar.
Click it and donate whatever you can.
http://www.flightsimulationforums.com/index.php
Good idea. The guy who did this is a total 
Lets hope they get back up and running
Thats a great idea Radarman, i think tom would really aprichiate that.
Also, AVSIM made the BBC Headlines: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8049780.stm
Tailhook wrote:
Why would anyone want to destroy that site??
It makes me mad that anyone would want to do such a thing 
, but unfortunately they get rep points for destroying things 😕 , so the bigger the site they destroy the bigger the rep they get within their own sad,slimey,i can't get a girlfriend ,i look like a pasty Dracula,nobody will go to the prom with me, so my right hand is my best blistered friend in my sad lonely internet World !
Too far? Not far enough i think!
Well said guys. In my humble opinion, that who did that should be taken out and have his cut off, very slowly, so as to inflict the most pain possible. Aside from that, why did Avsim not have a remote back up for all their data? I would gladly have paid a small fee for a down load to support the effort, but they will not see a dime from me, because they made no effort to secure what had to have been the largest flight sim data base in the world. After all, this is the internet.
'em all ...Art
P.S.
What the is happening to our avatars on this site?
effieveda wrote:
P.S.
What the
I haven't been able to see Avatars since yesterday Art... we won't need any though if you keep adding these funny emoticons to your posts 😀
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