Token of Appreciation

[Dave Flowerday]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

The way I took out the site was twofold - flooding the database until any space quotas were filled and taking up bandwidth by requesting the listing page.

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Understand that at the time I had good interests in mind -- protecting the FIRST community from phishing attacks.

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Again, none of this excuses the fact that I unknowingly attacked and took down a legitimate site trying to accomplish an honorable goal -- recognizing mentors. Everyone involved (which is almost everyone in FIRST) has a right to dislike me for it.

Wow. Just.... wow. I understand that you realize this was wrong, but do you realize that this action would have been wrong even if it was not a legitimate site? This action is simply never appropriate.

Please, to you and any others reading this. Learn to be a good net citizen and handle things like an adult. Actions like this are unacceptable and are the kinds of things that give smart, computer-savvy students like yourself a bad name.

This is very disappointing. I thought our community was better than that.