Some bunch of #%&$s hacked our website

[amnal]

hey there Mr.WMS

could you put up a torrent of the KGS database

it might be fun to look at.

"It might be fun?" 350 GB to download just because "it might be fun"? Geez...

Welcome to the future.

[azrael]

Out of curiosity, who would hack IGA website?

[amnal]

Out of curiosity, who would hack IGA website?

A hacked website can be used to, for instance, host your own content - you could hide an entire new website in the original url somewhere. You could put links and advertisements to your other sites in. You could also, potentially, gain access to information about the site's users - email addresses (valuable for spam), and passwords. And you can do this automatically, for some vulnerabilities.

So the answer is, anyone who wants to do these things.

[kirkmc]

Plenty of websites are hacked to serve ads and malware. Check your spam - most of the links to viagra sites are legit sites with extra pages added on their servers. But those hacks are not visible.

[wms]

hey there Mr.WMS

could you put up a torrent of the KGS database

it might be fun to look at.

"It might be fun?" 350 GB to download just because "it might be fun"? Geez...

The only problem is private games. I would have to filter them out. Not super hard, but something I just have never gotten around to. Once I did that, a torrent for each month would be a fine idea.

[kirkmc]

hey there Mr.WMS

could you put up a torrent of the KGS database

it might be fun to look at.

"It might be fun?" 350 GB to download just because "it might be fun"? Geez...

The only problem is private games. I would have to filter them out. Not super hard, but something I just have never gotten around to. Once I did that, a torrent for each month would be a fine idea.

NNGS used to provide monthly archives of all its games. There were fewer, for sure, but they were readily available.