After four years of glorious Anglican subversion, the Classical Anglican News Net (CaNNet) Empire was brought down last November by a malicious hacker who wiped out the main server and off-site backups.  Only today is the full story reported. Mike Daley and Webelf Binky, the hard-working, dedicated, and inspirational masterminds behind CaNNet, tell the cautionary tale.

A malicious hacker had gained root access (to this day we still don’t know how) to the main CaNNet server and wiped out both the live production server and the off-site backups. With the main server administrator still recovering from a devastating illness and finances running low, there was little strength left to draw upon other than to consider the possibility that we may need to shut down. The bottom had fallen out. Congratulations whoever you are, you won this one.

That was not the first time that scheming enemies had tried to destroy CaNNet.

[O]n we pressed with the firm belief that what we were doing was changing the face of how Anglicans thought about their church and themselves.

The First Stealth-Nuke

Then came the crash. It was bound to happen sooner or later and happen it did. A hacker who has since been traced to an Anglican office took us out for several days. With the generous help of a few godly programmers throughout the world we picked ourselves up, brushed off the dirt and we were back online.

That was then and this, unfortunately, is now.  Mike and Binks still aren’t certain whence the final fatal attack originated.  Maybe the same Anglican adversary, maybe not.

In retrospect, it looks like the CaNN servers had been under semi-constant attacks for a long period– whether from the same ‘Anglican office’ or not, we don’t know for sure.

But God knows.  For this small-minded act of high-tech vandalism, as for all evil great and small, there will be a judgment.