Not content with continually revealing his true identity to the world, one of his seemingly numerous enemies has now gone and stolen Anonymous Lefty’s blogs!!
I hope for his sake Lefty backed up the contents regularly. I also hope Blogspot proprietors Google take the matter seriously. You would think it should be fairly straightforward to track down the perpetrator if they were so minded.
Anyway, apparently Lefty is temporarily blogging in a manger pending retaking possession of his rightful sub-domain.
Bastards!!
Better make a current backup before it happens to us.
The internet archive has one copy of the site from Feb 2006, so all is not lost.
http://web.archive.org/web/20060202041642/http://anonymouslefty.blogspot.com/
But as vee said, all computer data should be backed up if it is of any importance, and preferably to multiple copies.
Thanks Ken.
I do have a “backup” of my posts as in I’ve saved the monthly archive pages as html up to November. But the text comes through as a mess and it’d be a hell of an effort to reload each of them individually so the archives are still there. And the URLs would be different, of course.
Basically, unless Blogspot can resurrect the site at the time it was deleted, it’ll be a huge mess. That is, presumably, one reason why the thief is busy filling the site with drivel at the moment so that there’s even less chance of blogspot being able to salvage the deleted content.
This whole thing is a nightmare. And if Blogspot’s response is the expected “hey, not our problem”, I think I’ll be taking it further. I want to find the bastard who’s done it.
MrLeft, the attacker’s IP that you mention at Miss Politics resolves to an ISP in Anjou, Canada. So the attack is probably being mounted from somewhere in the south east of Canada. That could be someone on holiday or someone who’s been transferred.
Apparently it’s through an anonymous IP service, so I don’t what the next step is. We’ll see.
Meanwhile, I’ve restarted AL at anonymousleftyinexile.blogspot.com and BW at boltwatchinexile.blogspot.com.
Please update your links.
Find out who hosts the anonymous IP service, being a lawyer I’m sure you know you can subpoena ISP records, etc, to determine whom the perpetrator may be.
Maybe you need sufficient evidence to do so, I don’t know but I do know it can be done.
Blogs regained – both AnonymousLefty and at BoltWatch. All archives restored.
Hurrah! (Please update your links, again…)