Did anyone else notice something weird going on with MacRumors this morning? About 8am GMT, the site was replaced with a single page about ThinkSecret and Nick dePlume. Have been looking around to see if anyone else had spotted it, but nothing mentioned so far.
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MacRumors hacked this morning?
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Haha, I so should have, but I didn't expect it to be fixed. It looked like ThinkSecret had taken over MacRumors. I'll try and see if I can recover it from my cache, as it was on my home laptop, and I'm at work right now.
But I swear, it did happen. Was all green and formal looking. I'll see if I can get it back.
But I swear, it did happen. Was all green and formal looking. I'll see if I can get it back.
Why's everyone so disbelieving just because I don't have a screenshot? Very.... defense. I know it was early n' all, but I wasn't seeing things!
I want to believe but the absence of a screenshot makes it so easy to disbelieve. Surely the big guns could confirm this by looking through their logs etc.
Well, like I said, I'll try recover the image from the browser cache when I get back home in a few hours. Come on big guns.... get checking! 
exactly. this is just hearsay without a screenshot. and since no one else posted anything or is confirming this it leans toward the 'it didn't happen' scene.
I'm aware this is a Rumors site n' all, but in this instance, what would I gain from asking people about this? Bit of a random thing to try and claim if it wasn't true, surely?
Yeah, absolutely. I totally agree. I'm just telling you what I saw this morning. I can't believe it would have been a wrong URL. I have my three favourite rumor sites bookmarked in Firefox, and i view them all together.
Having checked my cache, I can't find anything in it to prove this. Interesting, I can't find anything in it at all to do with Think Secret, no idea why, despite me viewing it this morning.
*Shrug* - I wasn't trying to make some big "you got hacked" claim or anything like that, but this morning, at about 8:15am GMT time, something very weird was happening with this site. I'd love to prove it, but I can't. At that time, I didn't think to take a screenshot or anything. Either way, if Arn is confident his site is secure, that's really the main issue, because that was ultimately all I was trying to flag.
Having checked my cache, I can't find anything in it to prove this. Interesting, I can't find anything in it at all to do with Think Secret, no idea why, despite me viewing it this morning.
*Shrug* - I wasn't trying to make some big "you got hacked" claim or anything like that, but this morning, at about 8:15am GMT time, something very weird was happening with this site. I'd love to prove it, but I can't. At that time, I didn't think to take a screenshot or anything. Either way, if Arn is confident his site is secure, that's really the main issue, because that was ultimately all I was trying to flag.
No, more like:
It was a play on his name, pauldunlop. Maybe a bit too subtle.
No, more like:
It was a play on his name, pauldunlop. Maybe a bit too subtle.
Outstanding!!!!! I missed that one.
I also could have sworn I saw bugs crawling through the server as well. I don't know, maybe it's just me.
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