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Post by smudger98 on Nov 6, 2021 8:33:27 GMT
Posted on the site this more than sad message---
Airframes.org has been shut down On 2021-11-04 2359 I received a letter from CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security Stuhlsatzenhaus 5 66123 Saarbrücken Germany notify.cispa.de/stating that airframes.org allegedly has a "data protection issue": "Use of third-party cookies without consent notice" and providing the helpful hint that "Fines for noncompliance with ePrivacy requirements may vary depending on national laws." which I consider threatening. They call it "research", however. That Helmholtz entity can't be trusted in any way, as they blatantly lie right into my face: they offer an "anonymous feedback" through a personalized link. Doh! Apparently, there are different "data protection issue"s, good ones and bad ones. They promised to re-check this site "to verify if the issue has been fixed". I don't want to be denounced in any way, and so, finally, the "issue" has been fixed immediately today 2021-11-05 and this site is clean now. Case closed. I am sorry. ralf (at) airframes.org |
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Post by Dylan on Nov 6, 2021 9:33:56 GMT
How strange, a similar thing happened to Jethros and had now changed it's URL, I wonder if this is a targeted thing to aviation databases?
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Post by dave on Nov 6, 2021 11:19:29 GMT
hi,
its either Brexit, climate change, shortage of HGV drivers, covid or scottish indy...
regards,
dave...
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Post by christoff on Nov 7, 2021 9:42:14 GMT
Also posted on the site...
""A side note:
Airframes.org got donations of 50 Euro last year 2020 and 30 Euro this year 2021 so far.
Thank you very much to those 8 individuals (out of 19266 users currently signed up in the "users"-table) supporting this site -- you know who you are.
As I originally had built this site primarily for my own needs, it will perhaps re-open soon again privately for my own use as well as for those 8 lonely supporters and some data contributors.""
I can fully understand that maintaining a site like this costs time, and time has some sort of monetary value. I think that at some time or another we have all been guilty, of maybe not appreciating the time and effort people have given in supporting this hobby of ours and there's. If these kinds of information sites were a subscription service, would we all happily hand over a few bob in recognition of someone else's hard work. I too was happily using Airframes .org without a care of what was happening at the other end, and I shall miss it now it's too late..
Chris.
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Post by graham on Nov 7, 2021 9:55:35 GMT
Sad indeed Chris/Smudge
When I started spotting again full time in early 2013, I used the site a lot, and sent in regular updates, long before I switched across to a digital logging programme which had all the info at a key stroke. I have to say that I'd never seen or noticed any invitation or link to donate to the upkeep of the website and would have happily contributed. But I also have to say that if it had an active user group of almost 20k with only a handful of supporters, then the request for donations couldn't have been advertised particularly well
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Post by smudger98 on Nov 7, 2021 12:33:10 GMT
Sad indeed Chris/Smudge When I started spotting again full time in early 2013, I used the site a lot, and sent in regular updates, long before I switched across to a digital logging programme which had all the info at a key stroke. I have to say that I'd never seen or noticed any invitation or link to donate to the upkeep of the website and would have happily contributed. But I also have to say that if it had an active user group of almost 20k with only a handful of supporters, then the request for donations couldn't have been advertised particularly well The demise seems to be at the hands of the German data protection hit squad.. stating that airframes.org allegedly has a "data protection issue": |
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Post by adi44 on Nov 7, 2021 16:43:55 GMT
Afternoon All
The "CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security" is the German equivalent of our National Cyber Security Center, they are there purely in an advisory role to German companies and / or German based websites or hosters, they have absolutely no legislative powers whatsoever. It is entirely up to the recipient of the advice if they act upon it or not...
All they have done is alerted the webmaster to potential security flaws within his site, which is their job. The Airframes.org webmaster would have been entirely within his rights to say "Thank you for the advice, but i'm happy the way I am", so to shut an entire site seems a little bit of overkill, but at the end of the day it is his site and his decision....
Cheers
Adrian
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Post by smudger98 on Nov 14, 2021 7:51:25 GMT
For any manual updaters for logs and databases may i mention that blackswan.ch/aircraft seems fairly upto date for most hex codes..
Works for me after a few test known & unknowns or until Airframes comes back. HTH,
Smudger.
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Post by smudger98 on Dec 2, 2021 8:46:11 GMT
AIRFRAMES IS BACK WORKING AGAIN....excellent news for me..
hth,
Smudger
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