Yeah @wash, thats the kind of thing that mention of Ushahidi reminds me of.. But lemme paint the picture... I decide, mmmh, this OLN thing will at some point need re-looking and analysis, so I decide to set up a timeline picking tweets from the good major, and newsfeeds from goodle with certain keywords (KDF, Al shabaab, Somalia) etc etc.. and map them against a timeline. For the short perios I did it, it showed some interesting trends, including how the attacks progressed, and how reported al shabaab activity was happening. Then someone in a certain military forum i actively visit mentioned to me... "Boss, that will compromise Op Sec", and kindly asked me to remove it... Obviously, i took him as a paranoid security freak and never paid attention to his "request", then one day, My google analytics just dropped. I checked my site.www.xxx.mydomain.com, it was nowhere... ! I logged into my server, my apache settings were intact, the directory and files, and the db were all there... so I decided, lemme check the logs and flush out this b@$tard... , i read through each line , filtered out the ip addresses i jua, and those for google and search engines ... nothing.. login, just me and my address. then on checking my dns config, the file had been edited and the only thing the guy left was a comment // :-) then the guy was suddennly very friendly in the forums... I asked my hosts (rackspace)... nothing, they did not even have access to my vps Operating system... Thats when i knew... Hata Internet Ina wenyewe... On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com>wrote:
LOL.
I don't mean to demean you at all Collins (me and you know each other so well), but what you just said almost made me fall from my chair - laughter!! Yaani, what happened exactly, leading to you getting caught up? Someone logged into your system?? Ok you did not secure the system or what? Deleted DNS entries for your domain? You mean the guy deleted /etc/resolv.conf or /etc/hosts or your named.conf?
Anyway, my question is about using FrontlineSMS with HTTPS. Did you ever try that? I guess that's a long shot...
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:45 PM, Collins Areba <arebacollins@gmail.com>wrote:
i had one installed for tracking progress for "operation linda nchi" but someone logged into my system and deleted dns entries for my domain and left without a trace.. nikaingia njeve....
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Odhiambo Washington < odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi skunks,
Is there anyone on list who is running an Ushahidi instance?
I am coming up with one, and my preferred application for receiving sms updates is FrontlineSMS.
I am facing a challenge though with FrontlineSMS. When the Ushahidi site uses https, it does not sync the SMSes onto the website. For http, it works without a problem.
I'd like to know if anyone faced this situation and what their solution was - or did they just resign to using plain http - without the "s"? :-)
I am using self-signed certificate for the site, but I highly doubt that would be the problem.
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