A note to our German Friends (Ihre Aufmerksamkeit bitte)

Stoppen Sie bitte, die Web site zu zerhacken. Sie verursachen nichts aber Mühe und vollenden nichts.

I have a website that has been repeatedly hacked. The client happens to be one of the last clients you would want to have pictures of crescent moons and Desert Eagle handguns showing up on their cover page. I’ve patched every security hole I can find, checked every permission, but my German friends seem to always be one step ahead of me. I’m no security expert, as my client is learning. I’m great at cleaning up the mess, there are just so many variables and on a large site there are too many nooks and crannies to keep clean. So I’m making a futile plea: Please just stop. I know it’s how you get your jollies, float your boat, get your rocks off, haben Sie eine gute Zeit. But I just don’t have time to keep up with you. You win, you’ve proven your black-hat superiority. Now bugger off.

See, the best part is that they used my contact form, the one I love so dearly, to send me a message after the last hack that said “Please forgive them” in German. That’s just beautiful.