Comments on: Grumbletext Hacked :| http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html Daily news and opinion for 250,000 industry executives and mobile fanatics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 22:14:00 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: steve procter http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3633 steve procter Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:22:54 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html#comment-3633 Adrian I had a dodgy debt company trying that on with me and I too got the best way to respond off of Grumbletext. I can send you the wording that you need to formally send to capquest if you want? By law they have to reply to it (as long as it is sent recorded and with a £1 postal order for their response) with all the proof as original docs, and if they don't respond in a month they are breaking the law. Thanks to grumbletext for helping me on that one, a great service!!! steve Adrian

I had a dodgy debt company trying that on with me and I too got the best way to respond off of Grumbletext. I can send you the wording that you need to formally send to capquest if you want? By law they have to reply to it (as long as it is sent recorded and with a £1 postal order for their response) with all the proof as original docs, and if they don’t respond in a month they are breaking the law. Thanks to grumbletext for helping me on that one, a great service!!!

steve

]]> By: Fed Up http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html/comment-page-1#comment-3619 Fed Up Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:53:03 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html#comment-3619 I am very upset that someone hacked the sight. This has been a life line to me, whilst trying to fight a debt company called CAPQUEST. I feel as though I have lost friends, due to dealing with them over the last year. There are a lot of people out there who are being bullied for money that they do not owe and this company will not even send any form of proof that people do. They just threaten to send you to court. My thanks to Grumblextext for being a life line, even though it is no longer there. I hope that it is able to be put back onto the website. Thanks Adrian. I am very upset that someone hacked the sight. This has been a life line to me, whilst trying to fight a debt company called CAPQUEST. I feel as though I have lost friends, due to dealing with them over the last year.

There are a lot of people out there who are being bullied for money that they do not owe and this company will not even send any form of proof that people do. They just threaten to send you to court.

My thanks to Grumblextext for being a life line, even though it is no longer there. I hope that it is able to be put back onto the website.

Thanks Adrian.

]]> By: livewire http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1448 livewire Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:28:50 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html#comment-1448 Hit the baddies harder Send your complaints to the TV Press Put them up on notice boards in clubs and pubs go the whole hog. Don't give in. Hit the baddies harder Send your complaints to the TV Press Put them up on notice boards in clubs and pubs go the whole hog. Don’t give in.

]]> By: technokitten http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1190 technokitten Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:37:33 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html#comment-1190 @ Jennifer Knowing Adrian as I do (I co-founded Grumbletext for SMS back in 2003), I'd cut him some slack. Yes, he messed up by not backing up properly - (sh)it happens nad I'm sure it was always on his 'to do' list. But it isn't *his* fault he got hacked either. And he does have significant family and work commitments and I imagine the back-up bit always got pushed down the list. Remember he doesn't need to run the website at all but he does because he wants to and he cares about it. And it isn't a cavalier attitude - he's stuck between a rock and a hard place. Grumbletext has done sterling work in the last few years and helped to make the mobile world a better place for consumers. It has cost Adrian both time and money to do so. And when we set it up, neither Adrian nor I were flush with cash or time but we both felt very strongly that we had to do something to combat junk SMS. So we did it. And I'm really proud to have played a small part in the world of Grumbletext. If anyone can help him get the data back or have tips on how he should set up his online back up or whatever, then I'd get in touch with him and offer your support to get him and the Grumbletext service back on track. @ Jennifer

Knowing Adrian as I do (I co-founded Grumbletext for SMS back in 2003), I’d cut him some slack. Yes, he messed up by not backing up properly – (sh)it happens nad I’m sure it was always on his ‘to do’ list. But it isn’t *his* fault he got hacked either. And he does have significant family and work commitments and I imagine the back-up bit always got pushed down the list. Remember he doesn’t need to run the website at all but he does because he wants to and he cares about it. And it isn’t a cavalier attitude – he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Grumbletext has done sterling work in the last few years and helped to make the mobile world a better place for consumers. It has cost Adrian both time and money to do so. And when we set it up, neither Adrian nor I were flush with cash or time but we both felt very strongly that we had to do something to combat junk SMS. So we did it. And I’m really proud to have played a small part in the world of Grumbletext.

If anyone can help him get the data back or have tips on how he should set up his online back up or whatever, then I’d get in touch with him and offer your support to get him and the Grumbletext service back on track.

]]> By: Alex http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1179 Alex Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:58:18 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html#comment-1179 There's always www.07text0spam.com for reporting your SMS scams and spams There’s always http://www.07text0spam.com for reporting your SMS scams and spams

]]> By: Jennifer Koronis http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html/comment-page-1#comment-1173 Jennifer Koronis Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:58:30 +0000 http://www.smstextnews.com/2006/10/grumbletext_hacked_.html#comment-1173 With all due respect to the creator of GrumbleText, working "insane" hours isn't really an excuse for not creating backups of your service. *Everyone* works insane hours, including people who work for large ISP's like Earthlink, AOL, etc, and backups still get done. There are tools that you can use to do this automatically and you never even have to look back at them. While I realize that GrumbleText was just a hobby, I think the cavalier attitude of "that's just the way it is" a *very* poor attitude to have towards those GrumbleText served. Of course, that's just my $0.02 cents. With all due respect to the creator of GrumbleText, working “insane” hours isn’t really an excuse for not creating backups of your service. *Everyone* works insane hours, including people who work for large ISP’s like Earthlink, AOL, etc, and backups still get done. There are tools that you can use to do this automatically and you never even have to look back at them.

While I realize that GrumbleText was just a hobby, I think the cavalier attitude of “that’s just the way it is” a *very* poor attitude to have towards those GrumbleText served. Of course, that’s just my $0.02 cents.

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