I have been locked out of my account for 5+ months -- and customer support has been a Kafkaesque nightmare. I am still locked out. (Oh, and I've spent $1M+ in paid META ads...)
You seem to have funded your own demise
Readit Newsralphington commented on Meta just suspended the Facebook account of Neal Stephenson twitter.com/nealstephenso... · Posted by u/SLHamlet
Why is it not available in the Canadian app store?
Sorry aboot that.
NewsBlur's founder here. I'll attempt to explain what's happening.
This situation is more of a script kiddie than a hacker. I'm in the process of moving everything on NewsBlur over to Docker containers in prep for the big redesign launching next week. It's been a great year of maintenance and I've enjoyed the fruits of Ansible + Docker for NewsBlur's 5 database servers (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch, and soon ML models).
About two hours before this happened, I switched the MongoDB cluster over to the new servers. When I did that, I shut down the original primary in order to delete it in a few days when all was well. (Thank goodness I did that! It'll come in handy a few hours from now).
Turns out the ufw firewall I enabled and diligently kept on a strict allowlist with only my internal servers didn't work on a new server because of Docker. When I containerized MongoDB, Docker helpfully inserted an allow rule into iptables, opening up MongoDB to the world. So while my firewall was "active", doing a `sudo iptables -L | grep 27017` showed that MongoDB was open the world. More info on SO[1].
To be honest, I'm a bit surprised it took over 3 hours from when I flipped the switch to when a script kiddie dropped NewsBlur's MongoDB collections, and ransomed about 250GB of data. I am now running a snapshot on that old primary, just in case it reconnects to a network and deletes everything. Once done, I'll boot it up, secondary it out, and be back in business. Let's hope my assumptions hold.
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30383845/what-is-the-bes...
What kind of database auth did you have? Wouldn't they have had to access config files or related in order to obtain your passwords, usernames, etc?
ralphington commented on New York Fed Adds $115.14B in Short-Term Liquidity to Markets wsj.com/articles/new-york... · Posted by u/spking
We were told back in September that the liquidity injection then was a one-off response to a freak occurrence, nothing to worry about, won’t happen again.
[citation needed]
ralphington commented on Space catapult startup SpinLaunch comes out of stealth techcrunch.com/2018/02/22... · Posted by u/stingrae
They mention in the article of being able to launch objects at 3,000 MPH. That's a tad short of the typical 17,500 MPH used for low earth orbit, and that's not counting the extra Delta-V required to resist atmospheric drag.
I'm very glad that this company exists, but this article doesn't help its case very much other than "Hey look, they got a load of funding".
Wouldn't it be better if Disney bought Netflix. Sure it's a much more expensive move, but consider their large (and pretty loyal) customer base, content library, data insights on what people want to watch, award winning movie and series strategy, etc. Disney could populate Netflix with more content of their own, own all the revenue, while still providing users with a vast variety of content. Netflix brought all the content together in an awesome and simple experience. Large co's are smelling dollars so they start to build their own Netflix clone with their own content. Customers don't want to pay for 20 different subscriptions. Give us 1 simple app, with all the content, and we'd probably pay a lot more for it.
Disney is obviously thinking they have the winning strategy with their large license database. They'll obviously lure people in with Star Wars exclusive content, Pixar, etc. But if they'd go the extra mile of buying Netflix, and giving us 1 subscription 'to rule them all', they'll prove their care for their customers.
The market cap of Netflix is 78 billion USD at the time of this writing. On top of that, they'd have to pay a premium. I suspect that you were thinking Netflix was an order of magnitude or two smaller than that.