Hey y'all,

Sorry it's been such a long time that Sector Disk has been down without any word. I got a bit spooked back a few months ago when new root-elevation exploits kept getting released without warning for Linux, and I tested one with an offline clone of Sector Disk and sure enough it worked. Seeing this I mitigated the issue with the algif_aead module, but other similar exploits continued to be released, and as such I ended up taking the VM fully offline.

This was and is a major concern for me running even a small Pubnix system as Sector Disk was hosted from my home on my home network. Of course it's something par for the course with large software like the Linux Kernel -- these were bugs bound to be found and exploited eventually. But still, I felt the risk was not worth keeping the site online, especially considering I have limited time to manage it actively. It's been really fun, and I'd love to possibly bring it back some day, but for now I'd like to keep it turned off.

I plan on releasing a browseable archive of the sectors as they were before taking the machine down at some point when I have time to code it. I would also really like to make the source code public with instructions for others to recreate lookalike systems of their own. I may bring it back someday if I have an urge to continue it where it left off. For now it had a good five year run, and I'm happy to have done the project.

See you on the flop side,
Jesse