Minecraft classic is now extremely vulnerable.
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liquid_lightning
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Okay, on my last post people were telling me about how minecraft classic was deleted but, now it is back. so we have resolved the problem a little bit. when you are on your way into minecraft classic it will say it is no longer suppored. Since it is no longer supported, that might mean that we are more vulnerable to hackers. Also in my last thread, I was talking about a server I use that in the past week got redflowers spawned in 12 of its worlds. (for anyone who does not know what a redflower does, it pretty much floods that entire world with magma.) They are very difficult to clean up and afterwards you are stuck with a whole bunch of half built houses that got the wood and wool burnt up. Also, just about 1 to a 1/2 hour ago all i got when i logged on was i nice view of a bottomless (or so it would seem) pit and after that the red screen of death. all because of people most likely enjoying their new found freedom. Again if any of this is incorrect, please let me know in the comments below.

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Minecraft Classic hasn't

Minecraft Classic hasn't changed. It is still at version 0.30 as it has been since December 2009.

It is no more vulnerable to hackers than it was when it started. If anything, it is less vulnerable because of all the work that has been done by the coders who work on the various server softwares that people use to host their servers, and of course there's the lovely World of Minecraft client which we all use.
Apparantly Mojang had removed Classic from minecraft.net altogether, but after some complaints have added it back.
It is now buried one link deeper on the minecraft.net website. All of this is evidently in an effort to get new players to try the full Minecraft Demo first, instead of heading into Classic first.
Think about it. If you worked on something for three years, wouldn't you want people seeing your latest work and not a version of what you did from years earlier?
So while Mojang has kept Classic up for those of us who are die-hard Classic fans, they are also trying to move people to the newer game that they've been so hard at work on for these past years. The new game even has a Creative mode that works really well for anyone who wants pure freebuild, which is what Classic was used for a lot.
Regarding the rest of your post... redflower and all that. I can't really speak to that. I'm not too familiar with most griefing software because I've never been too interested in it myself.
I will say that I used fCraft for my server for nearly 2 years. We had over 100,000 guests play there over the history of the server and we never had any serious problems that couldn't be reversed by the server software, either with undoing a player's actions with the blockdb, or using a backup of the world.

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how do you explain this?

Well then, explain why on the same day it stopped being supported, all of these bottomless pits and magma floods came.

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Simple...

Simple explanation, Your server got griefed. Mojang played no part in your red flower mess or the bottomless pit, that was all community. Download something like mcforge and then you can have a little better management over your server

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i dont think so

well, you see, none of the server hollowing stuff that they did is exactly, possible. the places they were doing this were for overlords only. I know the overlord and he would never destroy a spawn point.

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and also...

My server is mcforge