17b's Hacking Options

[Chapo]

17b a une nouvelle fois été hacké avec mise en place de fichiers frauduleux sur notre serveur. Google m'en a averti par mail.

Pour l'instant j'ai supprimé une partie des fichiers incriminés et rechargé ma dernière sauvegarde "propre".

Cela fait 2 fois en 2 mois qu'un pirate s'introduit sur notre site. Il installe des fichiers permettant d'envoyer du spam. Cela doit l'amuser. (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/icon_nul.gif)

Je n'ai malheureusement pas les compétences ni le temps pour résoudre ce problème et les fondateurs historiques de 17b qui avaient ces compétences ne sont plus disponibles pour ça non plus.

J'en appelle donc aux bonnes volontés qui souhaiteraient d'une façon ou d'une autre aider EatingPizza à résoudre ce problème.

Je reste bien évidemment à la disposition d'EatingPizza pour lui donner tous les codes d'accès nécessaire au réglement du problème.

Pour moi s'en est fini et je vous confie mon bébé. Je vous demande juste d'en prendre soin. (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/bye.gif)

Nous avons passé de bons moments ensemble. Il est maintenant temps pour moi de tourner la page. (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

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Once again 17b has been hacked with setting up fraudulent files on our server. Google notified me by e-mail.

For now I deleted some of the offending files and reloaded my last "clean" backup.

It is 2 times in 2 months that a pirate is introduced on our site. It installs files to send spam. That must amuse him. (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/icon_nul.gif)

Unfortunately, I do not have the skills or the time to solve this problem and the historic founders of 17b who had these skills are no longer available for it either.

So I appeal to the good will who would somehow help EatingPizza to solve this problem.

I remain of course at the disposal of EatingPizza to give him all the access codes necessary to solve the problem.

For me it is finished and I entrust my "baby" to you. I just ask you to take care of it. (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/bye.gif)

We had a great time together. It is now time for me to turn the page. (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:http://forum.17buddies.rocks/style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

[sgr]

Making a torrent of those files means downloading all 387Gb files (yes: 387 Gb), making a torrent (who wants to make such a big torrent ?) and upload it somewhere because I don't want to share my personal bandwidth with hundreds of peers.


We don't want to share your lastest 20Mb holidays pictures. We speak of 387 Gb zipped files !!

We are waiting for realistics suggestions...

https://archive.org

I`ve seen 30 - 40 GB archives on archive.org, But 387 Gb is far to large I think you would need to split them by game and maybe even alphabetically.

If you want I can contact valve and see if they are interested, its a long shot but worth a try.

I know that it sounds strange but:
1) Torrent clients are diversifying seeding i.e. ideally torrent client would upload 387 GB of data and then downloaded data will be redistributed by seeders, each will be distributing own downloaded chunk. You are basically uploading it, there is no difference: you can even limit number of connections and bandwidth and then you stop if you uploaded 400GB for example and check if everybody got a copy few days later and if there are holes in availability you seed some time again.
2) There are lots of people with big HDDs. I personally have 1 empty 1TB drive.
3) There are better compression methods likeLZMA2, Bzip2 (both available in 7zip).

Given how much feedback you have seen from people wanting to help you will easily replicate archive multiple times on seedboxes.

I can download 387GB in 57 hours through 15Mbit/s connection.

Downloading 300+ GiB of data throught BitTorrent with only one seed is near to impossible, no matter how much time you have and what's your connection speed.

Uploading it all to Internet Archive is an option but the current submission size limit is 10 GiB, if I recall correctly. Not sure whether there is a size limit to how much one account can upload.

In my opinion, the best option would be to find someone to host this data. GAMEBANANA is a good option. There's also CS-BG, a site which pops-up in first results when you search for Counter-Strike maps - I'm sure they'll be interested.

Also an option is to disable uploading and make a simple read-only archive from which everyone can download. An example of such would be Quaddicted (yes, right now you can upload new maps there, but users are also encouraged to make local backups of this archive).

In the end, if none of this is possible, at least release a simple plain-text list of all maps so people could manually find them on the web. Better to know the names of the maps we lost than nothing at all.

This post has been edited by sgr: 26/04/2017 - 18:29:00