Help With Flickr - My Account Restricted

John221us said:
Strange, that happened to me too; a couple of weeks ago. They said mine was done somewhere in South America. I am not sure I buy it. Nothing was changed or touched on the account, that I could see.
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A lot of this happens when hackers use automated programs to attempt hacks on thousands of accounts at a time. The accounts that use easily hacked passwords get added to a list of successful hacks. Then the hacker sells that list of accounts/passwords to people that will eventually use them.

Long story short: it could take months before they actually use your account, and when they do you will definitely know it.
 
It's really funny how search engines work.

Looking this one up, there are now so many robot sites that have already linked to Kimberly's thread (like this: http://www.silobreaker.com/help-with-flickr--my-account-restricted-5_2265943283798638649) that she now out page-ranks Flikr with the number 1 return on the same subject.

Congrat's, Kimberly! There sure are a lot of folks looking at your jello pics right now ;)

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ElPaso Pilot said:
It's really funny how search engines work.

Looking this one up, there are now so many robot sites that have already linked to Kimberly's thread (like this: http://www.silobreaker.com/help-with-flickr--my-account-restricted-5_2265943283798638649) that she now out page-ranks Flikr with the number 1 return on the same subject.

Congrat's, Kimberly! There sure are a lot of folks looking at your jello pics right now ;)
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HAHAHahaha!! I can only imagine how creeped out she is right now! :lol:
 
AdamZ said:
you have had your dads flight up there for a while IIRC so it could not have been that. Yahoo and Aol are the big two I get hacked spam from on a regular basis. The fact that you had an old password makes the hacking very likely, especially since you had not used it for a while. Did you ever get to see the offending photo that they up loaded or did they just reclassify you video of you dads flight?
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They restricted all 4,000 photos. Nobody can view them without signing in to Flickr. The video is still there, and, as mentioned by others, cannot be the bad video.

The email says "your video has been removed" which means, whatever it was, it was not my flying video. My flying video is still there. I will never know what was on my account. I hope it was not too horrible.
 
Rigged4Flight said:
HAHAHahaha!! I can only imagine how creeped out she is right now! :lol:
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Why would I be creeped out? I didn't even know the girls in the Jello. I was invited by a friend of a friend (a sky diver / base jumper). I was just there taking pictures. I didn't even have any beer and went home early. Those meat bombs are crazy people.
 
kimberlyanne546 said:
Why would I be creeped out? I didn't even know the girls in the Jello. I was invited by a friend of a friend (a sky diver / base jumper). I was just there taking pictures. I didn't even have any beer and went home early. Those meat bombs are crazy people.
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rofl @ meat bombs! :lol:
 
Sorry, I honestly don't know why anyone partial to their photographs wouldn't back them up on digital media like DVD or CD. A DVD holds hundreds if not thousands of photos, and can be burned on most computers, or on inexpensive portable drives. They're cheap too, and not so easily damaged. We even let a fish poke at one all day and it still played (that was a music CD).

Sorry to be so harsh, but there is no way I'd let Yahoo or any other company run something to which I was emotionally attached if I had an alternative.
 
steingar said:
Sorry, I honestly don't know why anyone partial to their photographs wouldn't back them up on digital media like DVD or CD. A DVD holds hundreds if not thousands of photos, and can be burned on most computers, or on inexpensive portable drives. They're cheap too, and not so easily damaged. We even let a fish poke at one all day and it still played (that was a music CD).

Sorry to be so harsh, but there is no way I'd let Yahoo or any other company run something to which I was emotionally attached if I had an alternative.
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I am sure "most of" the photos were on my computer but I did lose a hard drive long ago. I bought an external hard drive at that time. Just another project, it was never my intent to "only" have them on Flickr.

To be honest, when something works that well (since 2005 with no glitches), I just sort of trust that it will always be there for me.

I'm too trusting.
 
steingar said:
Sorry, I honestly don't know why anyone partial to their photographs wouldn't back them up on digital media like DVD or CD. A DVD holds hundreds if not thousands of photos, and can be burned on most computers, or on inexpensive portable drives. They're cheap too, and not so easily damaged. We even let a fish poke at one all day and it still played (that was a music CD).

Sorry to be so harsh, but there is no way I'd let Yahoo or any other company run something to which I was emotionally attached if I had an alternative.
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That'll buy you 2-5 years, on average.

http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/temp-opmedia-faq.html

The best backup systems have multiple copies, regularly tested, and re-written as necessary so N+1 copies or higher values of +1 based on desired paranoia level, are maintained.

Anyone who burns a single CD/DVD and tosses it in a file cabinet has a significant chance of it being unreadable in less than a decade.
 
denverpilot said:
That'll buy you 2-5 years, on average.

http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/initiatives/temp-opmedia-faq.html

The best backup systems have multiple copies, regularly tested, and re-written as necessary so N+1 copies or higher values of +1 based on desired paranoia level, are maintained.

Anyone who burns a single CD/DVD and tosses it in a file cabinet has a significant chance of it being unreadable in less than a decade.
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Meh, if I have a pic I'm that fond of I print it and give it to mom or file it with a stock photo company or two. There are few pictures that meet the criteria for me to archive anymore, I've lost so many negs and images over the years I've found that it just doesn't matter. The nice thing about digital is storage ability though, I can keep a file cabinet full of negatives on an SD chip, but it's a lot easier to lose one than a filing cabinet.
 
denverpilot said:
That'll buy you 2-5 years, on average....
Anyone who burns a single CD/DVD and tosses it in a file cabinet has a significant chance of it being unreadable in less than a decade.
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How does optical media become contaminated inside a dust sleeve? With magnetic storage media I agree, fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field render them unstable for long-term storage sans backup. But optical media are only susceptible to more physical agents (sunlight, moisture, damage) that are easily controlled. I have CDs that go back a LONG way that are still playable.
 
steingar said:
How does optical media become contaminated inside a dust sleeve? With magnetic storage media I agree, fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field render them unstable for long-term storage sans backup. But optical media are only susceptible to more physical agents (sunlight, moisture, damage) that are easily controlled. I have CDs that go back a LONG way that are still playable.
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Disc rot. De-lamination and/or oxidation of the optical layer due to manufacturing issues.

Been there / done that / lost one I needed from something that looked like this -- from outside edge in. No handling involved, was in storage.

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Got a lot of generic replies from Flickr. Lame that it takes a week to hear back from them.

As suspected, I need to "go through everything" and label it and then request a review.

I probably won't get to this until my vacation when I should have some free time. Staying in Reno alone in a hotel the first few nights of working the Air Races before my roommate arrives and then I switch hotels.
 
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