Be safe...

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lamentingseraph's avatar
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Happy New Year, peeps!

If you hang out at dA often enough, you’ll notice this talk about people being hacked and deactivated for no apparent reasons.  dA is like a playing field for hackers.

It will be really sad if any of one of us is deactivated. Already I am seeing many deactivated accounts.

EDIT: The point about deactivation that is so important is that IT IS IRREVERSIBLE! You'll lose everything you have accumulated up until the point of deactivation, that's including the artwork you uploaded, friendships made, favs, points, gifts, llamas, EVERYTHING! NOTHING CAN BE RECOVERED (unlike Facebook, of course).

To keep ourselves safe, take some time to read some of these journal entries/ news articles here. I could regurgitate them but these are quite well written already.  

The issue first caught my eye when I read this news article by :iconwish-sticks: news.deviantart.com/article/13…

This journal entry by :iconartistshospital: makes everything very simple and straightforward artistshospital.deviantart.com…

How to be safe using dA apps, a news article by :iconfuhrer-glasses: news.deviantart.com/article/13…

Keep yourself safe & looking forward to a better 2011 :)
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Prismatic-Prince's avatar
More information you may like to see: [link] It was linked to on one of those pages, so you may have seen it already.

It seems that deactivation takes 7 days to complete permanently. However, I can imagine that if the person doesn't log in within those 7 days, or if the email the confirmation is sent to is hacked or otherwise inaccessible, then they are in trouble still. We must be safe! Thanks for the infomation.