Your Pants (yourpants.org): the Nerdfighter forum, its hacker outage and return (2011)

stage · status: restart

date	event	what	video
2011-02-09	propose	John announces that some Nerdfighters are building Your Pants, a forum like the old My Pants, hopefully live within a week at yourpants.org.	NERDFIGHTERS UNITE! (in your pants) 00:02:34
2011-02-12	launch	Hank opens Your Pants for business in a limited public release capped at the first 200 people, so nothing crashes; opening to all is planned very soon.	200 People in Your Pants 00:03:05
2011-08-04	lapse	Hank says the Your Pants forum is still down after being hacked, with no return given; the YouTube comments still work.	I Love My Brother 00:02:55
2011-08-09	milestone	Hank explains the Your Pants hack (a vBulletin exploit run by script kiddies): their white-hat security expert Sam Rudd (ASR) stopped it before user data was compromised, but a big hunk of the forum's content was lost.	Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War. 00:00:42
2012-01-02	restart	John says the Your Pants forum, down for several months due to Russian hackers, is coming back this week.	Changes to Vlogbrothers 00:01:08