Quote from: suchmoon on Today at 12:28:44 PM

Don't post anything sensitive here, and I mean "private" parts of the site as well, like your PMs or your e-mail address or anything like that. Keep in mind that deleted posts and PMs may not be actually deleted from the database.

I know about that, but it's always good to remind everyone.
My question was more pointed towards admin and developers that maintain forum software and fix bugs.

Quote from: Rikafip on Today at 03:18:16 PM

Just because no one managed to shut bitcointalk down doesn't mean that it can't happen in the future so this thread could serve as a good reminder for theymos that he has to keep up with security (which I am sure that he is already doing, but not a bad thing to remind about it every once in a while).

Exactly.
I am sure there are people who would gladly hurt and destroy bitcointalk if they had the chance.

Quote from: theymos on Today at 03:34:29 PM

If the reports regarding 4chan's operations are true, then bitcointalk.org's security is much better than that. Other than SMF 1.x, which we maintain directly, I believe that all of the software we're using is maintained and kept up-to-date. We also offer security bounties.

I have to say that I was a bit concerned and worried that we are using older modified SMF version.
Security bounties info should be more visible in my opinion.

Quote from: theymos on Today at 03:34:29 PM

The best thing you can do to reduce the damage in case of another bitcointalk.org hack is to delete your old PMs.

This is a really good advice.
I am sure there are many members keeping a bunch of PMs in their account.

Quote from: theymos on Today at 03:34:29 PM

I'm really sad that 4chan is down. Hopefully it comes back soon. Even though I haven't been very active there recently, I consider myself a 4channer more than I consider myself an American: it's one of my cultural bedrocks. I'd probably personally contribute quite a bit of money to some project to revive it, if necessary.

Interesting.
I didn't know you were once active member of 4chan.