Earlier this year, it was reported that the computers that comprise the internal infrastructure for the studio at Karmic Radio (also called The Seat of Consciousness) were sabotaged from within and endured another cyber attack from without.
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| Photo via Al Wiggins Jr. |
The attack targeted the computers' clocks, causing them to malfunction
on March 3rd, 2014 at 3:33am. The computers were infected and knocked out of
commission and unable to log onto the web.
Photo credit: Al Wiggins Jr
Out of the five
servers that were built acquired or rebuilt for Karmic Radio, four were
destroyed. Until the other day, I was using a laptop exclusively but
now the primary server is back in service.
Photo credit: Al Wiggins Jr
A thorough examination
of the equipment revealed the extent of the sabotage. For instance,
foreign objects were found jammed into the cd drives of a number of
computers and the wires to some of the equipment, such as the mics and
mic headsets were cut. The scanner is also out of commission.
In spite of the initial, devastating effects of the attacks, the studio's main server is back in operation. Furthermore, we were able to save our music archives (in vinyl, cassettes and mp3). The CD archives were untouched.
