Outage of the forum?

Discourse.org is our host they’re the ones dealing with it. So far I am very impressed by their reactivity. The holidays have always been a favorite time for the mischievous to act.

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It's really great when you have a responsive host - they're worth their weight in gold!
Yes, we find the peak time for hacking and other malevolent activity is the Easter break, with Black Friday also being a flashpoint. School half term holidays would be if they all happened the same week, but I think schools are very wisely staggering these now, so that all the schools aren't off at the same time. (At least, I've observed that, whether it's by accident or design I can't say)

Whilst some of these disruptive kids will go on to a life of professional cybercrime, many are just flexing their latent cyber talents and developing their moral compasses, so I try not to be too judgemental - we all got up to some form of mischief when that age, before we settled down as productive members of society.

Richard F.

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