[Sticks]

Contrary to the e-mail that went around, I did not hack this site.

Rick thinks I did because I was a professional programmer once, and was on the board when it went down.

I was a programmer, but that was in COBOL, which is not designed for websites. I have not touched Cobol since June 2000.

I also did limited SQL as part of my duties, but it was limited, and not to a level to set up forums, all the DBAs did the interesting stuff.

Although I did work as a programmer it was not in the realm which allows one to deal with and bring down on purpose sites of this complexity.

The real hacker would have covered his tracks, if he had the skill to break in here.