https://wiki.pttlink.org/w/index.php?title=Letter_to_the_community&feed=atom&action=historyLetter to the community - Revision history2024-03-29T10:05:35ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.35.5https://wiki.pttlink.org/index.php?title=Letter_to_the_community&diff=2390&oldid=prevKg7qin: Added category Category:PTTLink Organization2021-01-10T08:07:51Z<p>Added category <a href="/wiki/Category:PTTLink_Organization" title="Category:PTTLink Organization">Category:PTTLink Organization</a></p>
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</table>Kg7qinhttps://wiki.pttlink.org/index.php?title=Letter_to_the_community&diff=2373&oldid=prevKg7qin at 09:55, 4 January 20212021-01-04T09:55:44Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There have been several posts made alleging theft of data from the old AllStarLink system. No such actions have been taken by the admin committee and we repudiate these meritless allegations. As previously stated, due to the action of the AllStarLink Board of Directors, all existing data and systems (to include user data) were abandoned in place. In addition, and contrary to statements published by the AllStarLink Board, all servers under control of the admin committee have and shall remain housed in secure commercial data centers. Additionally, we have received commitments from donors of these resources that PTTLink may continue to utilize them. These resources, which were formerly donated to keeping the AllStarLInk Network running for the benefit of the thousands of users worldwide, will continue to be available and keeping the PTTLink systems running in the same manner. The safeguarding of data has been and always will be of the utmost importance to the admin committee and PTTLink team.<br/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There have been several posts made alleging theft of data from the old AllStarLink system. No such actions have been taken by the admin committee and we repudiate these meritless allegations. As previously stated, due to the action of the AllStarLink Board of Directors, all existing data and systems (to include user data) were abandoned in place. In addition, and contrary to statements published by the AllStarLink Board, all servers under control of the admin committee have and shall remain housed in secure commercial data centers. Additionally, we have received commitments from donors of these resources that PTTLink may continue to utilize them. These resources, which were formerly donated to keeping the AllStarLInk Network running for the benefit of the thousands of users worldwide, will continue to be available and keeping the PTTLink systems running in the same manner. The safeguarding of data has been and always will be of the utmost importance to the admin committee and PTTLink team.<br/></div></td></tr>
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</table>Kg7qinhttps://wiki.pttlink.org/index.php?title=Letter_to_the_community&diff=2371&oldid=prevKg7qin at 09:52, 4 January 20212021-01-04T09:52:12Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The groundwork was laid for what was to become PTTLink on 29 December 2020 after the unannounced and uncoordinated actions taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors. At approximately 5:00 pm Pacific (0100 UTC, 30 December), the admin committee became aware of multiple catastrophic system outages. Attempts to login to systems to remediate were presented with new IP addresses and messages that the host keys were unknown. Further investigation revealed that the DNS zone record was updated at the registrar for allstarlink.org moving it from the long time home of caustic-sea.allstarlink.org to Cloudflare. In addition, an investigation into the IP addresses being presented revealed that they belonged to Google. (For more information on the AllStarLink admin committee visit: <<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nowiki</del>>https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee</<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">nowiki</del>>). Since the admin team was not previously granted access to the DNS control panel, it was unknown at this time if this was the board, or a bad actor.<br/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The groundwork was laid for what was to become PTTLink on 29 December 2020 after the unannounced and uncoordinated actions taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors. At approximately 5:00 pm Pacific (0100 UTC, 30 December), the admin committee became aware of multiple catastrophic system outages. Attempts to login to systems to remediate were presented with new IP addresses and messages that the host keys were unknown. Further investigation revealed that the DNS zone record was updated at the registrar for allstarlink.org moving it from the long time home of caustic-sea.allstarlink.org to Cloudflare. In addition, an investigation into the IP addresses being presented revealed that they belonged to Google. (For more information on the AllStarLink admin committee visit: <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee</ins><<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ref</ins>>https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee</<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">ref</ins>>). Since the admin team was not previously granted access to the DNS control panel, it was unknown at this time if this was the board, or a bad actor.<br/></div></td></tr>
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</table>Kg7qinhttps://wiki.pttlink.org/index.php?title=Letter_to_the_community&diff=2370&oldid=prevKg7qin at 09:50, 4 January 20212021-01-04T09:50:15Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The admin committee understands that there are many unanswered questions regarding the events surrounding the outage of 29 December and the subsequent migration to the PTTLink Network, which was officially formed on 30 December 2020. In an act of good faith and to assuage any concerns users may have regarding their data, the PTTLink team commits to the following:</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The admin committee understands that there are many unanswered questions regarding the events surrounding the outage of 29 December and the subsequent migration to the PTTLink Network, which was officially formed on 30 December 2020. In an act of good faith and to assuage any concerns users may have regarding their data, the PTTLink team commits to the following:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>All users who were registered with the AllStarLink system have the opportunity to '''''OPT IN''''' to remain registered with the PTTLink network. Users only need to point their nodes at the PTTLink registration server before 3 February 2021 to have their user and associated node data retained. This applies to all nodes that a user may have. On 3 February 2021, any nodes which have not been registered with PTTLink after 2 January 2021 will be removed. Any user accounts that no longer have nodes associated with them as a result of this removal will also be removed from the PTTLink user database.</blockquote><blockquote>Users can accomplish this by adding to the /etc/asterisk/iax.conf file an additional registration line, duplicating their existing AllStarLink node number and password and changing the registration server from register.allstarlink.org to register.pttlink.org similar to the following:</blockquote><center><blockquote>register=<node number>:<password>@register.pttlink.org</blockquote></center><blockquote>Any registered user who does not wish to wait until 3 February to have their registration information removed from the PTTLink database can submit a written request (from the registered email account on file) with the subject line of “Request to remove my user and node data from PTTLink” which also contains within the body your callsign and a statement from you requesting to have your user data removed. Send this email request to <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[</del>[Mailto:helpdesk@pttlink.org<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|</del>helpdesk@pttlink.org<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]</del>]. You will receive an automatic reply with a ticket number assigned to your request. Your request will be processed within 7 days upon receipt and you will receive confirmation back that your account and data have been removed (if the requirements of this request are met). This is limited to one email per user and one callsign/user account only. Emails with requests for removal of multiple user accounts/callsigns (bulk requests) will be rejected without further action taken and will require resubmission as individual requests. Requests to remove data that do not match the email account on file will also be rejected without further action taken.</blockquote><blockquote>Additionally, no node number assigned as of 3 February, will be reassigned in the PTTLink network for the period of 1 year, such that should someone wish to acquire their original AllStarLink node number after the removals, they can.</blockquote></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>All users who were registered with the AllStarLink system have the opportunity to '''''OPT IN''''' to remain registered with the PTTLink network. Users only need to point their nodes at the PTTLink registration server before 3 February 2021 to have their user and associated node data retained. This applies to all nodes that a user may have. On 3 February 2021, any nodes which have not been registered with PTTLink after 2 January 2021 will be removed. Any user accounts that no longer have nodes associated with them as a result of this removal will also be removed from the PTTLink user database.</blockquote><blockquote>Users can accomplish this by adding to the /etc/asterisk/iax.conf file an additional registration line, duplicating their existing AllStarLink node number and password and changing the registration server from register.allstarlink.org to register.pttlink.org similar to the following:</blockquote><center><blockquote>register=<node number>:<password>@register.pttlink.org</blockquote></center><blockquote>Any registered user who does not wish to wait until 3 February to have their registration information removed from the PTTLink database can submit a written request (from the registered email account on file) with the subject line of “Request to remove my user and node data from PTTLink” which also contains within the body your callsign and a statement from you requesting to have your user data removed. Send this email request to [Mailto:helpdesk@pttlink.org helpdesk@pttlink.org]. You will receive an automatic reply with a ticket number assigned to your request. Your request will be processed within 7 days upon receipt and you will receive confirmation back that your account and data have been removed (if the requirements of this request are met). This is limited to one email per user and one callsign/user account only. Emails with requests for removal of multiple user accounts/callsigns (bulk requests) will be rejected without further action taken and will require resubmission as individual requests. Requests to remove data that do not match the email account on file will also be rejected without further action taken.</blockquote><blockquote>Additionally, no node number assigned as of 3 February, will be reassigned in the PTTLink network for the period of 1 year, such that should someone wish to acquire their original AllStarLink node number after the removals, they can.</blockquote></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>User management and registration portal: https://www.pttlink.org<br/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>User management and registration portal: https://www.pttlink.org<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><ref>https://www.pttlink.org</ref></ins><br/></div></td></tr>
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</table>Kg7qinhttps://wiki.pttlink.org/index.php?title=Letter_to_the_community&diff=2369&oldid=prevKg7qin at 09:39, 4 January 20212021-01-04T09:39:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There have been several posts made alleging theft of data from the old AllStarLink system. No such actions have been taken by the admin committee and we repudiate these meritless allegations. As previously stated, due to the action of the AllStarLink Board of Directors, all existing data and systems (to include user data) were abandoned in place. In addition, and contrary to statements published by the AllStarLink Board, all servers under control of the admin committee have and shall remain housed in secure commercial data centers. Additionally, we have received commitments from donors of these resources that PTTLink may continue to utilize them. These resources, which were formerly donated to keeping the AllStarLInk Network running for the benefit of the thousands of users worldwide, will continue to be available and keeping the PTTLink systems running in the same manner. The safeguarding of data has been and always will be of the utmost importance to the admin committee and PTTLink team.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There have been several posts made alleging theft of data from the old AllStarLink system. No such actions have been taken by the admin committee and we repudiate these meritless allegations. As previously stated, due to the action of the AllStarLink Board of Directors, all existing data and systems (to include user data) were abandoned in place. In addition, and contrary to statements published by the AllStarLink Board, all servers under control of the admin committee have and shall remain housed in secure commercial data centers. Additionally, we have received commitments from donors of these resources that PTTLink may continue to utilize them. These resources, which were formerly donated to keeping the AllStarLInk Network running for the benefit of the thousands of users worldwide, will continue to be available and keeping the PTTLink systems running in the same manner. The safeguarding of data has been and always will be of the utmost importance to the admin committee and PTTLink team.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"><br/></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The groundwork was laid for what was to become PTTLink on 29 December 2020 after the unannounced and uncoordinated actions taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors. At approximately 5:00 pm Pacific (0100 UTC, 30 December), the admin committee became aware of multiple catastrophic system outages. Attempts to login to systems to remediate were presented with new IP addresses and messages that the host keys were unknown. Further investigation revealed that the DNS zone record was updated at the registrar for allstarlink.org moving it from the long time home of caustic-sea.allstarlink.org to Cloudflare. In addition, an investigation into the IP addresses being presented revealed that they belonged to Google. (For more information on the AllStarLink admin committee visit: <nowiki>https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee</nowiki>). Since the admin team was not previously granted access to the DNS control panel, it was unknown at this time if this was the board, or a bad actor.<br/></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The groundwork was laid for what was to become PTTLink on 29 December 2020 after the unannounced and uncoordinated actions taken by the AllStarLink Board of Directors. At approximately 5:00 pm Pacific (0100 UTC, 30 December), the admin committee became aware of multiple catastrophic system outages. Attempts to login to systems to remediate were presented with new IP addresses and messages that the host keys were unknown. Further investigation revealed that the DNS zone record was updated at the registrar for allstarlink.org moving it from the long time home of caustic-sea.allstarlink.org to Cloudflare. In addition, an investigation into the IP addresses being presented revealed that they belonged to Google. (For more information on the AllStarLink admin committee visit: <nowiki>https://wiki.allstarlink.org/wiki/Admin_Committee</nowiki>). Since the admin team was not previously granted access to the DNS control panel, it was unknown at this time if this was the board, or a bad actor.<br/></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>All users who were registered with the AllStarLink system have the opportunity to OPT IN to remain registered with the PTTLink network. Users only need to point their nodes at the PTTLink registration server before 3 February 2021 to have their user and associated node data retained. This applies to all nodes that a user may have. On 3 February 2021, any nodes which have not been registered with PTTLink after 2 January 2021 will be removed. Any user accounts that no longer have nodes associated with them as a result of this removal will also be removed from the PTTLink user database.</blockquote><blockquote>Users can accomplish this by adding to the /etc/asterisk/iax.conf file an additional registration line, duplicating their existing AllStarLink node number and password and changing the registration server from register.allstarlink.org to register.pttlink.org similar to the following:</blockquote><center><blockquote>register=<node number>:<password>@register.pttlink.org</blockquote></center><blockquote>Any registered user who does not wish to wait until 3 February to have their registration information removed from the PTTLink database can submit a written request (from the registered email account on file) with the subject line of “Request to remove my user and node data from PTTLink” which also contains within the body your callsign and a statement from you requesting to have your user data removed. Send this email request to [[Mailto:helpdesk@pttlink.org|helpdesk@pttlink.org]]. You will receive an automatic reply with a ticket number assigned to your request. Your request will be processed within 7 days upon receipt and you will receive confirmation back that your account and data have been removed (if the requirements of this request are met). This is limited to one email per user and one callsign/user account only. Emails with requests for removal of multiple user accounts/callsigns (bulk requests) will be rejected without further action taken and will require resubmission as individual requests. Requests to remove data that do not match the email account on file will also be rejected without further action taken.</blockquote><blockquote>Additionally, no node number assigned as of 3 February, will be reassigned in the PTTLink network for the period of 1 year, such that should someone wish to acquire their original AllStarLink node number after the removals, they can.</blockquote></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>All users who were registered with the AllStarLink system have the opportunity to <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">'''''</ins>OPT IN<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">''''' </ins>to remain registered with the PTTLink network. Users only need to point their nodes at the PTTLink registration server before 3 February 2021 to have their user and associated node data retained. This applies to all nodes that a user may have. On 3 February 2021, any nodes which have not been registered with PTTLink after 2 January 2021 will be removed. Any user accounts that no longer have nodes associated with them as a result of this removal will also be removed from the PTTLink user database.</blockquote><blockquote>Users can accomplish this by adding to the /etc/asterisk/iax.conf file an additional registration line, duplicating their existing AllStarLink node number and password and changing the registration server from register.allstarlink.org to register.pttlink.org similar to the following:</blockquote><center><blockquote>register=<node number>:<password>@register.pttlink.org</blockquote></center><blockquote>Any registered user who does not wish to wait until 3 February to have their registration information removed from the PTTLink database can submit a written request (from the registered email account on file) with the subject line of “Request to remove my user and node data from PTTLink” which also contains within the body your callsign and a statement from you requesting to have your user data removed. Send this email request to [[Mailto:helpdesk@pttlink.org|helpdesk@pttlink.org]]. You will receive an automatic reply with a ticket number assigned to your request. Your request will be processed within 7 days upon receipt and you will receive confirmation back that your account and data have been removed (if the requirements of this request are met). This is limited to one email per user and one callsign/user account only. Emails with requests for removal of multiple user accounts/callsigns (bulk requests) will be rejected without further action taken and will require resubmission as individual requests. Requests to remove data that do not match the email account on file will also be rejected without further action taken.</blockquote><blockquote>Additionally, no node number assigned as of 3 February, will be reassigned in the PTTLink network for the period of 1 year, such that should someone wish to acquire their original AllStarLink node number after the removals, they can.</blockquote></div></td></tr>
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