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* We had a massive site crash last night. Yesterday’s posts have disappeared. The crash appeared to be related to the outage from earlier in the week.

And, no, Bruce Rauner did not buy my hosting company.

At least, I don’t think so.

Carry on.

posted by Rich Miller
Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:04 am

Comments

  1. Low bid outsourcing?

    Comment by Anyone Remember Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:07 am

  2. HE may not have bought the hosting company, but he was losing in the internet poll on who will win. Prelude to election day? Will all ballots disappear statewide when he appears on his way to defeat?

    Comment by anon Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:07 am

  3. Yesterday’s posts have disappeared and are gone forever?

    Comment by Mighty M. Mouse Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:07 am

  4. Are you 100% sure the Baron isn’t involved? We’ve seen what he does to reporters who upset his fragile heart ;-)

    Comment by Roadiepig Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:09 am

  5. The I.T. Department is to Bruce Rauner as the Plumbers were to Richard Nixon?

    – MrJM

    Comment by MrJM Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:10 am

  6. Massive edit job by Rich.

    Comment by walker Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:10 am

  7. I wouldn’t put it past Rauner to have a couple black-hat IT guys on his staff.

    If you’re a thug — and practiced in the arts of postmodern, bustout thuggery as he is — then black-hats are a must-hire. One of the first hires, actually.

    Comment by Frenchie Mendoza Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:11 am

  8. It was the new Raunervich hacking company that got you.

    Comment by Norseman Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:12 am

  9. Rauner to Rich: “Bite me.”

    Comment by Old Shepherd Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:12 am

  10. Quinn staff did it, they weren’t happy about those two polls Rich reported. One was bad enough but two was over kill!!

    Comment by Anonymous Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:18 am

  11. brought to you by the IT guys at the IRS

    Comment by Anonymous Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:20 am

  12. It can’t be Quinn. His IT kiddies are too busy working on Wolf of Winnetka 3.

    Comment by Norseman Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:21 am

  13. A good lesson for all of us…BACK UP YOUR DATA!

    Comment by Skeptic Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:22 am

  14. I thought I was banned for life. I was the last post on your governors poll and said “regardless who wins 2018 is going to be a hoot”. BOOM. Sorry.

    Comment by Anonymous Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:23 am

  15. He doesn’t need to buy the company, just hire a couple of hackers to crash the servers. Wouldn’t surprise me any if that was happening since it’s been happening on a regular basis. Wouldn’t even need to be Rauner’s people, but just some over zealous supporters.

    Another possibility is heavy traffic this close to the election, although it was crashed around 10 last night, so that is rather late for heavy traffic.

    Comment by A Jack Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:24 am

  16. Is Oscar ok? Do you want to go to a safe house? Do you think you’re being watched?

    Comment by Mighty M. Mouse Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:24 am

  17. Sorry, but the situation requires more coordination and effort possible from the Quinn administration, so yeah - Rauner probably did it.

    Comment by VanillaMan Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:27 am

  18. The “Plutocrat” video was a kick in the groin, and very close to home. If it were about me I’d be angry as a hornet. “Just sayin’”.

    Comment by James Knell Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:28 am

  19. I think Andy Shaw did it since you had that great post blasting him!

    Comment by AndyShawDidIt Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:29 am

  20. 9:23 was me.

    Comment by Casual Observer Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:29 am

  21. - weren’t happy about those two polls Rich reported. -

    Oh, yes we are.

    Comment by Anonymous Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:30 am

  22. Vanilla

    -but the situation requires more coordination and effort possible from the Quinn administration-

    Hate to disagree but if it’s politics Quinn is quite competent it’s the whole governing thing where he fails.

    Comment by Mason born Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:32 am

  23. It was Rauner. Of course it was Rauner.

    Comment by Soccermom Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:32 am

  24. It’s my fault! I left a profuse compliment on one of Willie’s posts. First this and then a Cessna barely missed colliding with a pig in mid-air.

    Comment by A guy... Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:34 am

  25. What if your hosting company’s 401k plan is managed by a company that worked with GTCR on managing the Pennsylvania state employee pension fund…?

    Comment by Mittuns Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:37 am

  26. I’m sure Bruce owns shares of your hosting site. Campaign logic dictates that he is solely responsible for the crash.

    Comment by Phenomynous Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:38 am

  27. It was Squeezey — he’s actually a worm, not a python.

    Comment by Anon. Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:40 am

  28. At least there’s no conspiracy theories, eh?

    I’m calling ALCOA. We’re gonna need to start buying those tin foil hats by the dozen. lol

    Comment by A guy... Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:42 am

  29. Well it wasn’t Quinn’s twitter folks, they are too busy re-tweeting staff tweets about going to vote..

    Comment by OneMan Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:43 am

  30. Mike Bost fronts Politico today.

    High school dance coach? Wouldn’t have guessed.

    Comment by Wordslinger Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:43 am

  31. After Oberweiss’ comments, I knew lightning would strike somewhere.

    Comment by walker Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:45 am

  32. Thank God. I was sure it was Friday when I came in this morning. When I checked Capitol Fax I was fearing that I would have to live most of the week all over again.

    Comment by AFSCME Steward Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:47 am

  33. Just like level 55 in Frozen Freefall

    Comment by Buck Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:51 am

  34. There is nothing wrong with your monitor. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now in control of the blogging. We control the contrast and the brightness. We can deluge you with a thousands of posts, or expand one single post to crystal clarity and beyond. We can shape your vision to anything our imagination can conceive. For the next hour, we will control all that you see and hear.

    Comment by AFSCME Steward Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:52 am

  35. The interesting thing about these comments especially is that if Rauner *does* pull out a win — he won’t, but if he does — this kind of cynical, conspiratorial talk will be a core foundation of his administration.

    “Who did Rauner buy off to get on board?”

    “Who did Rauner threaten?”

    “I was threatened by Rauner, but I refused to give in.”

    “Rauner promised me money for my re-election so I had to vote. I did. I had no choice.”

    Comment by Frenchie Mendoza Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:52 am

  36. Rich, Any chance you were hit with a DDOS attack that brought your server down. They are a bigger and bigger problem as this live display shows http://map.ipviking.com/ . These attacks can now be rented at really cheap rates ($5 for an hour) see http://goo.gl/imhPSZ. They are causing problems for schools as students use them to get out of work using online resources.

    Comment by jimbo2 Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:52 am

  37. I return to my earlier tinfoil hat theory.

    http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/01/02/lets-make-candidates-pledge-not-to-use-bots/

    “These days, campaign managers consider interfering with a rival’s contact system an aggressive campaign strategy. That’s because one of the most statistically significant predictors of voter turnout these days is a successful phone contact from a party supporter the night before the election. This is what has driven up invasive robo-calls. In 2006, automated calling banks reached two-thirds of voters and by 2008 robo-calls were the favored outreach tool for both Democrats and Republicans. Incapacitating your opponents’ information infrastructure in the hours before an election has become part of the game, though there have been few criminal convictions of party officials caught working with hackers to attack call centers, political websites and campaign headquarters. Republican National Committee official James Tobin was sentenced to 10 months in prison for hiring hackers to attack Democrat phone banks on Election Day in 2002. But we do know that partisans regularly launch denial of service attacks – Obamacare websites have been recent targets. If an aggressive move with technology provides some competitive advantage, some campaign manager will try it.”

    If you really think Bruce Rauner wouldn’t stoop this low, you haven’t been paying attention.

    Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:54 am

  38. NOOOOOOBODY EXPECTS THE RAUNER INQUISITION!!!!

    Comment by Chunga’s Revenge Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:55 am

  39. I think Bruce Rauner is going to shake up Springfield. I voted early for Bruce, you should too.

    Comment by YellowDoogDemocrat Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:56 am

  40. Great to see Capitol Fax back up and running again. I wondered whether there was just too much traffic for the server. I’d hate to think that this site was hacked and don’t see any reason why it would be hacked. Rich is fair to everybody.

    Then again, Quinn was pulling away in the online poll…

    Comment by Grandson of Man Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:57 am

  41. ==If you really think Bruce Rauner wouldn’t stoop this low, you haven’t been paying attention. ==

    If you think that ONLY Bruce Rauner would stoop this low, then YOU haven’t been paying attention.

    Comment by Jaded Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:59 am

  42. It felt a bit like Ground Hog Day this morning.

    Comment by 47th Ward Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 9:59 am

  43. The fact that anyone would even joke about rauner sabotaging cap fax shows how people really feel about him, is that the kind of guy you want in power?

    Comment by William j Kelly Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:00 am

  44. YDD

    “I think Bruce Rauner is going to shake up Springfield. I voted early for Bruce, you should too.”

    We now return control of your decision making to you, until next election, at the same time when the Control Voice will take you to… The Rauner Limits.

    Comment by AFSCME Steward Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:02 am

  45. Money, and lots of it, can make magical things happen.

    Comment by Anonymous Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:05 am

  46. ==is that the kind of guy you want in power? ==
    Yes.

    Comment by Jaded Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:06 am

  47. “I think Bruce Rauner is going to shake up Springfield. I voted early for Bruce, you should too.”

    This is just Bruce’s way of saying he supports fracking near the New Madrid Fault.

    Comment by Stuff Happens Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:07 am

  48. I’m sure the BGA’s thorough, independent investigation will identify the hacker.

    Comment by Anonymour Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:10 am

  49. “I’m sure the BGA’s thorough, independent investigation will identify the hacker.”

    But only if Rich pays the appropriate tribute.

    Comment by AFSCME Steward Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:13 am

  50. A guy complimented Willie? Rich, you have to retrieve yesterday’s posts…

    Comment by Soccermom Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:17 am

  51. Pay no attention to the troll known as Y-Doog. Do, however, pay attention to the real Yellow Dog Democrat.

    Comment by Cheswick Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:18 am

  52. With abosulutely nothing about midnight last night, I was wondering if they had made Rich an offer he couldn’t refuse …

    Seriously, I was a bit worried about the site this morning when it only had Wednesday’s posts. There is a lot of stuff out there right now and it’s hard to stay 100% secure.

    Comment by RNUG Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:22 am

  53. ==Soccermom - Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:17 am:

    A guy complimented Willie? Rich, you have to retrieve yesterday’s posts…===

    And I reaffirmed my “smitteness” with you S-Mom. Hmmm, maybe that was it. LOL

    Comment by A guy... Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:23 am

  54. - Soccermom - Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:17 am:

    Yep, that really happened.

    Comment by RNUG Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:24 am

  55. ===Any chance you were hit with a DDOS attack ===

    Nope.

    Comment by Rich Miller Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:30 am

  56. From what I understand of state tech, if it had been the state it would have been a DOS attack..

    HiHo…

    I will be here all week.

    Comment by OneMan Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:36 am

  57. Rich, do they give you a username/password for your MySQL database? If so, you could remotely snapshot it every four hours or so from a remote site fairly easily.

    Comment by Stuff Happens Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:38 am

  58. Rauner did not like that video that was posted? Re-post the video and see if your website goes down again.

    Comment by DuPage Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 10:56 am

  59. “Sorry, but the situation requires more coordination and effort possible from the Quinn administration, so yeah - Rauner probably did it.”
    ————–

    I’m trying to picture Pat Quinn and his staff meandering through a data center unsupervised. The whole concept could make one’s eyes bleed…..

    Quinn would probably want the legislature to legislate new safety provisions again ‘blade servers’ because people could hurt themselves…..

    “All those boxes with all those pretty lights….”

    “What happens if I press this big red button….”

    Yup. Could totally see it happening…

    Comment by Judgment Day (on the road) Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 11:42 am

  60. With everything from yesterday gone Plutocrat should have been your morning music. Or has that drifted off into the ether/cosmos somewhere?

    Comment by West Side the Best Side Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 11:56 am

  61. I’m glad you’re back in business and glad that I’m not going nuts, as I thought I was for awhile when the Blog was stuck on Wednesday and the rest of the world said it was Friday.

    Comment by Arthur Andersen Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 12:38 pm

  62. The timing of this is one hell of a coincidence. Coincidences happen all the time. I just don’t particularly trust coincidences.

    I’m fairly sure it’s just coincidence, but given the number of overweight twenty something Ayn Rand loving geeks who work for his campaign……
    nah I am not going to go there. Those guys are too fat to crawl into the bowels of Rich’s computer. That’s how you would do it right? Crawl and use your Swiss Army knife to cut the wires? This is a political geek “Guns of Navarone”.

    Lotsa good stuff in yesterday’s posts. The ballad of Rauner, the poll etc etc.

    I think the posting here pushed the video to over 3000 hits very quickly. Or at least helped push.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD32bfYKTRM

    Rich could use his twitter page to somewhat recreate some of the posts without the commentary.

    Comment by IrishPirate Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 12:54 pm

  63. I posted this under the wrong topic. Must be my constant looking over my shoulder and fear of any unexpected UPS packages showing up.

    If you wanted to recreate yesterday’s posts google cache would help. Why do I feel that I’m wearing a beret and waiting for the British to parachute me some arms and a radio circa 1942? Vive la Resistance!

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:622k0OhVAVgJ:capitolfax.com/2014/10/23/question-of-the-day-1930/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

    Comment by IrishPirate Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 1:06 pm

  64. Oops. There was a glitch a few minutes ago.

    Comment by RNUG Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 1:58 pm

  65. A Guy — my husband actually saw that. He came home and said, “You’re The Soccer Mother on Cap Fax, right?” (direct quote) There’s somebody who’s smitten with you.”

    And I said, “Oh, it’s just A Guy…”

    Comment by Soccermom Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 2:02 pm

  66. (Continuous rhythmic blinking)

    Hello. My. Name. Is. Oswego. Willy.

    I. Have. Thought. Long. About. Who. I. Will. Vote. For. Governor.

    (Blinking increases, twitching begins)

    I. Support. Bruce. Rauner. (Pause) For. Governor.

    Bruce. Will. Shake. Up. Springfield. And. Bring. Back. Illinois.

    In. The. Last. 16. Hours. I. Have. Seen. How. Great. Bruce. Rauner. Is.

    I. Ask. (pause) Everyone. (pause) To. Vote. For. Bruce. Rauner. And. Evelyn. Slip. (Major twitch, cough, and then blinking continues) Sorry. Evelyn. Sanguinetti. The. Qualified. Running. Mate.

    Thank. You. And. Go. Bruce.

    Oswego. Willy.

    (Passes out, fade to black)

    Comment by Oswego Willy Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 2:15 pm

  67. I’m not going to post a link, but if anyone does a Google image search for USS Pueblo and “sign” they will get the idea you’re driving at.

    Comment by IrishPirate Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 2:52 pm

  68. if you do a google search on a particular comment, thread, name, the threads are cached. I made a comment yesterday that Walker noted and which has stuck with me so I wanted to retrieve it to post again. mystery solved….Rauner is a bad guy!

    Comment by Amalia Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 3:23 pm

  69. === Soccermom - Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 2:02 pm:

    A Guy — my husband actually saw that. He came home and said, “You’re The Soccer Mother on Cap Fax, right?” (direct quote) There’s somebody who’s smitten with you.”

    And I said, “Oh, it’s just A Guy…”===

    Tell him I said hello. He’s a good guy. I kinda think of him as a brother-in-law you know. He’s smitten too.

    Comment by A guy... Friday, Oct 24, 14 @ 3:42 pm

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