The last remaining Observers awoke this morning only to discover that the website of Fullerton’s favorite liberal rag had been digitally violated by rogue Internet vandals.
Several years’ worth of error-ridden editorials and retyped city press releases have been replaced with a single web page containing an indecipherable message and some horrible trance music.
The number of readers who will be affected by this outage is unknown, but private documents released by the Observer in a court last summer revealed that the Observer’s online readership is insignificant in comparison to that of its digital neighbors.
It is also unknown how much of the Fullerton Observer’s priceless archives were lost in the attack. Let’s hope SK keeps a backup.
#1 by Chris Thompson on November 29, 2010
…gently putting 10′ pole back where it belongs
#2 by No Surprise on November 29, 2010
Aahhh, what a shame…..just due reward….
#3 by van get it da artiste on November 29, 2010
oh poo
#4 by Madusha on November 29, 2010
This is why I tell clients to back up. And go with professionals who back up the web site they create.
#5 by Fullerton Native on November 29, 2010
I am awaiting the Wikileaks document dump of the Observer!
#6 by George Berkeley on November 29, 2010
Well, they tell me a tree fell in the forest. I’ll be damned if I know – I wasn’t there and didn’t hear anything.
#7 by 4SD Observer Observer on November 29, 2010
Oh, no, whatever shall I do? My only source of news went down. Now I may have to read a book.
#8 by Joe Sipowicz on November 29, 2010
Let’s hope they get back on line so they can do a fitting tribute to Pam Keller as the door hits her on the way out.
#9 by Travis on November 29, 2010
It looks like the Observer is finally back on line.
#10 by Hollis Dugan on November 29, 2010
Anyone mind telling us how you knew this? Put another way, what idiot on the Friends staff is wasting the time to check that site and why?
#11 by The Fullerton Savage on November 29, 2010
This is who our brave anarchist picks on? Wow, taking down a list of pdfs on an independent newspaper. Wouldn’t want to interrupt the banking sector or maybe big pharma, would you? Maybe you can get a job with the government.
#12 by Joe Sipowicz on November 30, 2010
I think that’s the point of the post. The Observer is the lowest hanging fruit possible. In fact it’s not even hanging it’s already on the ground.
#13 by Hollis Dugan on November 30, 2010
Rotting on the ground you mean.
#14 by The Fullerton Savage on December 1, 2010
Yeah, OK, your sarcasm was more subtle than mine.
#15 by yoyo bipolar skank(strong) on November 30, 2010
why?why?why?why? why?why? whaa, whaa, whaa, why? by SK of fullerton, daughter of THE ROCKET SCIENTIST/laid off aerospace worker in the 1960′s
#16 by just a guy on November 30, 2010
I think the hackers improved the site a little bit. I wonder if they made off with Kennedy’s famous portrait of the city council?
#17 by david on December 1, 2010
makes me want to drink alchoholic beverages