[AccessD] Interesting Access article

[Ryan W]

If I had to hazard a guess I'd say SmarterASP, since they're dealing with
Crypto stuff this very moment (I was impacted)


On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:43 AM Jim Dettman via AccessD <
accessd at databaseadvisors.com> wrote:

> << The DBA web site has been removed from the its previous host. It seems
> that the host was hacked and encrypted and every backup, across the
> network,
> suffered the same fate. A complete disaster.>>
>
>  Was that Infinitely Virtual by any chance?
>
> Jim.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AccessD [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of
> Jim
> Lawrence
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 9:39 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Interesting Access article
>
> Note: The DBA web site has been removed from the its previous host. It
> seems
> that the host was hacked and encrypted and every backup, across the
> network,
> suffered the same fate. A complete disaster. As the DBA site virtual was
> still using ASP, it may have been the logical weak spot in the entire
> network...I will be speaking to him tonight, along with some of us old geek
> friends, over a cup of coffee.
>
> Maybe it is possible to rebuilt the entire MS Access in JavaScript? The
> following link is a desktop built in JS and HTML:
>
> https://www.os-js.org/
>
> I think it is time for some younger hackers to step up. :-)
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> <accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
> Cc: "Mark Simms" <mar.ko at verizon.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 6:10:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Interesting Access article
>
> re: "The main problem with Access and the lack of forward progress is that
> they swung for the web three times and missed all three times.
>
> Jim."Those were half-hearted attempts. What they needed to do (and they
> knew
> this) was to port the entire Access VBA Object model to a javascript
> environment.Then a conversion tool would be needed to handle the conversion
> of desktop apps to web apps.
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