{"id":573,"date":"2015-06-18T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-18T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/aarchives\/?p=573"},"modified":"2015-07-02T19:07:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T22:07:21","slug":"hacks-extortion-schnarr-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aerendel.ca\/aarchives\/hacks-extortion-schnarr-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacks, Extortion, & Schnarr like that"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, June 18, 2015 -( 16\u00b0C \/ 61\u00b0F & Sunny with scattered clouds @ 9:30 am in Atlantic Canada )- Today\u00a0 might be Paul McCartney’s birthday.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Kaelyn planting flowers in the hills of Aerendel. Jim W used this screen shot for his new twitter background, Kaelyn got lost behind the tweets. – Oh, When you’re building a gaming world, you need to have a builder character in the area you’re creating and\/or improving. That’s where Kaelyn came in. She’s a world improver.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n

— So we had a problem with a web provider. They claim our site was infected because we hadn’t purchased their security service, we did, but they wanted us to purchase their premium package which costs twice as much per year as their quoted price from their yearly hosting package.<\/span><\/p>\n

—The odd thing is, they shut down our site on almost the same day as a guy who wrote a book on cyber-security fraud and extortion, claiming the U.S. Government is involved in a conspiracy to grab total control over everything on the internet. Part of this alleged plot involves cyber-security firms that appear to be a private industry on the surface but were found to have deep ties with the US Government when the author dug deeper. <\/span><\/p>\n

— We contacted the author with a fairly wordy play by play description of what we were told and he told us to scrap the web provider and go with somebody bigger, who has more to lose if they’re caught with their hands in your cookie jar and somebody sees the US Federal Trade Commission pulling their strings behind the curtain. He suggested GoDaddy? We gotta think about that. Meanwhile, if any of you want to see what happens when extortionists shut down a web site for thinly veiled attempts to extort $189.99 per year above and beyond the $131.88 listed ‘renewal’ price. They’re currently claiming an introductory rate of $15.00 for the first year. If you’re considering going with a company that calls itself ‘Fat Cow web hosting’, think again. Look them up on your favourite search engine and visit their propaganda page on the web. Then look at http:\/\/www.aerendel.ca\/blogz.html<\/a> and pay attention to all the error pages they plastered on any page to ‘aerendel dot org’ that comes up.<\/span><\/p>\n

— Shrug, check back here in a couple weeks or more to see what we decide to do.<\/span><\/p>\n

— Thanks,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

——— Jim d’Aerendel ——<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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