[Imc-web] Re: [Imc-tech] Jack Ryan and IMC Site

[Mike Lehman]

Arun,
Thanks for the confirmation that I am not being slowly driven crazy by grad school.

I don't know technically where to go from here. Maybe consult with the Dada guy to find out if he knows anything? But I do know where we should go policy-wise. I suggest that we simply do a full delete of any Jack Ryan stuff we are certain of (definitely everything signed Jack Ryan, as well as the obvious re-nicked posts he is making now.) That should cut down on the problem until we find a technical solution. Obviously, posts where there is some doubt about should be dealt with with more circumspection, but that will be a judgment call.

I doubt that this is the issue, but is it possible that Jack has found some sort of php hack? My inclination is that if he had, he would be using it for all his posts and that does not seem to be the case.
Mike Lehman

Arun Bhalla wrote:

> I saw it yesterday and possibly this morning with Firefox.  I haven't
> checked with it since then.  I just checked with lynx, and it's there, too.
> I don't have editor privs.
> 
> Under the assumption that mysql might have been corrupted, I checked
> the articles table in the ucimc database, and it checked out okay.
> 
> I didn't see any recent Apache errors, php errors, kernel errors, mysql errors,
> or dada errors (if it logs anything).  I don't know where to go from here.
> 
> Arun
> 
> Mike Lehman writes:
> 
>>Paul,
>>Well, that's sort of reassuring.
>>
>>However, I just checked comment #22128, which you probably hid. It claims to 
>>not be showing in both the editor screen and on the website when I'm signed i
>>n in editor mode on my primary computer, but when I went to my other computer
>>, where I've been logged out since before I rebooted it earlier, and it shows
>> plain as day, with nothing to indicate it is hidden in any fashion. Since #2
>>2128 was posted after I rebooted and cleared my cache, there is no way that t
>>his is just a residual image. I also checked it with IE, and it shows up ther
>>e also, so it's not just my Mozilla that is flaky. I have no idea what could 
>>account for this, but something very strange is going on. 
>>
>>Maiko looked at the page source code on different examples of this flakiness,
>> comparing it to other comments that have been correctly hidden by the system
>> and couldn't see anything obviously wrong with that. The problem must lie de
>>eper in the database or something.
>>
>>Others on these list should check to see what they are seeing. It would be es
>>pecially helpful to check computers that we haven't used to login as editors 
>>on. I'm curious as to WTH is going on. 
>>Mike Lehman