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R.I.P Thorsten Otto

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Damn his site http://tho-otto.de/ is now a casino already ?! that went down fast !

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Glad I took a clone when I did. Shame the scripts can't be recovered, but at least there's a static copy of it.
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The ghouls didn't take long at all...
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There are some efforts going on to preserve his work in the Internet Archive: https://forum.atari-home.de/index.php/t ... #msg277221
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don_apple wrote: 15 Jul 2026 10:49 There are some efforts going on to preserve his work in the Internet Archive: https://forum.atari-home.de/index.php/t ... #msg277221
I have a complete mirror of his webserver (I.e. source code, not wget pages). I have uploaded it to @piku's server a few weeks ago. If anyone wants to do help us out, feel free to reach me.
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mikro wrote: 15 Jul 2026 12:30 I have a complete mirror of his webserver (I.e. source code, not wget pages). I have uploaded it to @piku's server a few weeks ago. If anyone wants to do help us out, feel free to reach me.
How you manage that? If it needs hosting I can do that no problem.
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I have "worked around" Github security and got his ssh key.
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mikro wrote: 15 Jul 2026 12:49 I have "worked around" Github security and got his ssh key.
Was his site loaded from github then? I scanned the site and git but assumed his site was hosted elsewhere.
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No, it was done via exploiting his Github FreeMiNT membership.

Hosting is a secondary issue. The real question is what to do with that mirror. As we can see, it took only a couple of weeks before somebody hacked it, presumably via one of his PHP scripts. So it would require running in a sandbox or something equally secure. If someone is willing to get his hands dirty, let me know. It requires some admin / php knowledge to get right.
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I could look into all that easy enough. Would be helpful if there was logs.
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@mikro is it a private server as I can't find it anywhere.
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