RIP - Garage Glamour

[srwatters]

It appears that a hacker damaged the Garage Glamour website last week and now they are completely off line. The front page had been announcing a "New Site" for many months, but alas it had never been installed. I fear that this may be the death blow to what was once a great glamour photography forum.

Rolando Gomez, the site creator and owner, is a member who occasionally visits TPF. I hope that he is able to resurrect the former "Powerhouse of Glamour Photography" website. Until then we wait...

In the meantime, you can visit Jimmy D's blog for some interesting glamour photography reading/viewing. Warning, site is NSFW!

Pretty Girl Shooter Blogspot

[srwatters]

It looks like GG is back up. Still the old software. I can't believe they didn't use the opportunity to launch the new site. Makes me wonder if they ever will...

[ThePhotoBinder]

I was looking at using LiveBooks.com for future project, but after Roland told us last week he got hack. I think I might look else where.

[z-monster]

There's no reason to be frightened due to a hack. Hackers constantly hack sites in order to prove that it can be done to their peers or to show to the moderators that it needs to update the websites secuirty. It's a form of showing off.

Very rarely is it to harm or destroy but it often does. I'm sure Roland is taking great efforts to update the websites security.

[janikphoto]

Originally Posted by z-monster

There's no reason to be frightened due to a hack. Hackers constantly hack sites in order to prove that it can be done to their peers or to show to the moderators that it needs to update the websites secuirty. It's a form of showing off.

Very rarely is it to harm or destroy but it often does. I'm sure Roland is taking great efforts to update the websites security.

it may be rare, but it DOES happen. Allison V Smith, a very well-known editorial photog based in North Texas even had her domain name stolen out from under her several years back. They replaced her site with a porn site. I guess her name was a popular enough search that it was worth stealing for use in porn?!? Anyway, almost anything can and will be done when greed and profit are concerned...

[z-monster]

Originally Posted by z-monster

Very rarely is it to harm or destroy but it often does.

Originally Posted by janikphoto

it may be rare, but it DOES happen.

[janikphoto]

Originally Posted by z-monster

why the huh, when I was supporting your statement?!? Now, I need a