Guestbook Cache Hack
My next-door neighbor ran into a problem today: “We have a petition to be signed as you did Chris, on Medicardforall.com. Occasionally, weirdos have filled up some petitioner comments with obscenities of even worse long paragraphs on insurance or other nonsense. Dan is checking regularly and gets rid of same in a way he doesn't think I need to learn to do it. But now it seems someone or thing has wiped all of our over 100 petitioners off. Do you not have some interactive communications on your websites? If so, how do you keep them clean or useable for your purpose?”
I wrote back: On the subject of securing Web site data, it largely depends on the software you're running – and if there are known vulnerabilities for it. The guestbook script may have been hacked, or the script (itself) may have inadvertently deleted the data if there was a bug in it. Either way, your Web host should have a backup copy of your site and all of its most recent data – and I hope that you have a backup, too? If you're not keeping or making local backups of this data, I'd suggest starting right now.
Google to the rescue! I don't know how recently your signatories were deleted, but I went to Google, entered each guestbook URL into the Google search field, then clicked the subsequent “Google's Cache” link and then saved the file(s) to my hard drive. I don't know if you'll be able to import them into the guestbook script again, but I would suggest (if that's not possible) to combine these two pages into one, then link to them at the top of the guestbook page. This way, people can still look at the old signatures (mine included).
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November 9th, 2009
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Anonymous
May 10th, 2006
at 10:14am
The Google cache can also be a terrible thing. A friend of mine was slandered on a website about a year ago, and he legally had the offensive website removed shortly thereafter. Google never deleted the cache, and when you search for my friend’s name, the slanderous title of the non-existent webpage is still displayed within Google’s listings.
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October 29th, 2006
at 7:45pm
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January 19th, 2007
at 11:43pm
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March 24th, 2007
at 8:36am
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April 5th, 2007
at 6:40am
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12 Law Avenue,
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Email:dr_ganimusa@yahoo.com
Tel. 234 802-2723143
PERSONAL /CONFIDENTIAL
Date: 5th of APRIL, 2007
Dear Sir,
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Finance has approved the sum of Twelve Million; Seven Hundred Thousand
United States Dollars being full payment in favor to late Engr. Mark Roehr who was involved in an author accident with his enter family at
Porthercourt Expressway last year December.
My good friend is a contractor with the Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation; he was awarded a contract for supply of Oil Pipe Line,
Construction and Maintenance of 250 Million (LPG) Gas Plant at Warri
Refinery in the year 2000 at the cost of Twelve Million, Seven Hundred Thousand United States Dollars. He successfully completed executing of the contract last year and waiting payment from the government of Nigeria until his untimely death.
I am the Director, Foreign Project Payment Office of the Presidency,
Federal Republic of Nigeria and close friend to the late Engr. Before
the late Engineers untimely death, I have been assisting him to chase for approval and payment of his contract fund from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and Federal Ministry of Finance.
It is unfortunate that the two ministries have now approved his
contract payment while he is not alive to receive the fund. I have been
in constant contact with his attorney to trace any of his family or
relative for the claim of the fund to no avail, our effort has been
unsuccessful. More worrisome is that the federal government will cancel
and return back the fund into treasury account on first week of May 2007 before handing over to a new elected democratic government if none of his family or relative is finding for claim of the fund.
I have make agreement with his attorney to seek assistance of a
trustworthy foreign company or an Individual who could help us to
receive the money for investment without any hitch as nest of kin to the late deceased.
However, we have agreed to give company or individual 30% of the total
fund, while 5% is set-aside for any expenses. Therefore, if this offer
is acceptable to you, please indicate your interest by contacting me on
my private above email for further clarification and briefing.
Yours Faithfully
Dr.GANI MUSA
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