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[quote=jsteele]First off, 12:39 in that thread (the second 12:39 anyway) is not well-informed about how the Internet works. If a hacker broke into DCUM and identified the IP address of a poster who detailed her security system (or lack thereof), the IP address could not be matched to a house. It could be matched to an ISP or business. The hacker would then have to hack the business or the ISP to try to identify the end user. Even if the business was successfully hacked, that likely would not easily lead to a home address. If the hacker had that capability, he would use the skills for something much easier to turn into real money.

As for your questions, is there a way to hack DCUM? Probably. I would never claim that any website is unhackable. I don't know of an easy way to do it or I would have blocked it. I have a background in network and web security and I know how I would try to hack it. I know there are people more capable than me who could probably do it. I check logs constantly and have a ton of monitoring. In the political forum, there is a thread that I started about catching the Department of Homeland Security running a vulnerability scanner against the site. DHS would never explain to me why that was being done, but the normal reason is to discover ways to hack a website.
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