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** Root holders in DCU spend the day running between fourth year projects and looking through logs looking for evidence of the intrusion. | ** Root holders in DCU spend the day running between fourth year projects and looking through logs looking for evidence of the intrusion. | ||
** Reinstall begins later on, with the help of atlas. Minerva is reinstalled first, as it's needed for us to receive mail. First packages are installed again there by 9.50pm that night. The internet connection is switched back on and deathray is configured to receive and store mail by about 1am. Everything else remains unavailable, and the network is left in a rediculously complicated segregated state to stop anyone accessing anything. | ** Reinstall begins later on, with the help of atlas. Minerva is reinstalled first, as it's needed for us to receive mail. First packages are installed again there by 9.50pm that night. The internet connection is switched back on and deathray is configured to receive and store mail by about 1am. Everything else remains unavailable, and the network is left in a rediculously complicated segregated state to stop anyone accessing anything. | ||
== May == | |||
*16th - Redbrick chairperson, Robert "robby" O'Reilly, receives an email containing the Redbrick root password. He informs the committee of this, but then deletes the email. | |||
*22nd - Robby is told to resign by lil_cain in Fibbers. "RESIGN!" soon becomes a popular catchphrase and a rallying cry for disgruntled members and/or trolls. | |||
*23rd - Robby, the Redbrick chairperson, resigns from his position. | |||
== June == | |||
*9th - Receive emails the Redbrick membership informing them of the recent events: | |||
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 00:11:39 +0100 | |||
From: Andrew Harford <receive@redbrick.dcu.ie> | |||
To: announce-redbrick@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie | |||
Subject: [Announce-RedBrick] RedBrick Back Online, Chairperson Resigns | |||
Reply-To: committee@redbrick.dcu.ie | |||
Sender: announce-redbrick-bounces@lists.redbrick.dcu.ie | |||
Hi, | |||
We are pleased to announce that RedBrick is back online following a disk | |||
failure in our primary storage array (minerva) on Tuesday evening. No data | |||
was lost, and the array was re-built sucessfully with a replacement disk. | |||
We are planning to schedule downtime this Saturday to that will allow us | |||
to reduce the number of disks in use on minerva, meaning there would be | |||
spare disks available and installed in the event of future failures. | |||
This work is dependant on re-installing severus, and creating a full backup | |||
of minerva in advance. More detailed notice will be given via boards/motd | |||
later in the week. | |||
I must also take this opportunity to announce the resignation of our | |||
chairperson, robby, and explain the circumtances leading up to this. | |||
On Friday May 16th robby told the committee over irc that he had received | |||
an email containing the root password that had been in use on minerva & murphy | |||
when RedBrick was hacked. | |||
Robby provided this password, but told us that he had deleted the email, which | |||
was received from 10minutemail.com. Myself and the other admins found it | |||
odd that someone would go to the relative trouble of sending mail via | |||
this service, and that robby would delete this potential evidence. | |||
The following Monday I emailed the committee, requesting that we hold an | |||
emergency meeting to dicuss this email. Robby replied, saying he would | |||
be unavailable for any meetings that week. Given that the semester was ending | |||
and people would be gone home by the next week it was decided to hold the | |||
meeting anyway, on the Thursday evening. This was the first meeting called | |||
by anyone since before the network had been compromised. | |||
At this meeting the committee decided that in robby's absence the only | |||
course of action was to discuss the issue further over the email. | |||
Late that night, cian, johan, werdz and I met robby in Fibbers. Cian, Johan and | |||
I expressed our discontent with the situation by telling robby he should resign. | |||
Whatever the circumstances, it was pretty unprofessional of us to have a go | |||
in public like that, and we apologise for our actions. | |||
The following afternoon dano mailed the committee outlining our conversation | |||
about the email, and asking robby for more information. Robby replied to this | |||
email with his resignation, citing the events of the previous night as his | |||
primary reason. | |||
An EGM will be held at the earliest oppertunity next semester to elect a new | |||
chairperson, however the committee have not decided how best to fill this | |||
position in the interim, and will be happy to take on board any suggestions | |||
from members. | |||
All the best, | |||
andrew. | |||
[http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055308210 Rabble ensues]. | |||
== September == | == September == | ||