Disentanglement – simple things made complex

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Since this is hackernews, maybe this is the right place for this question:

Yesterday evening, someone deleted two posts from my WordPress blog. I assume that it was a hacker who didn't appreciate my apostatic criticism of the scientific community.

The two posts (out of 160) included an early version of this one and another post that once circulated widely on Twitter (https://kirstenhacker.wordpress.com/2019/09/29/the-walrus-an...)

They included some of my sharper criticisms and they established my credibility as someone who studied these systems for years as a community insider.

I, of course, back up my work offline, and I immediately changed my WordPress password and disconnected my computer from the internet because I didn't know if they had just hacked my WordPress account or my computer. Yet, this morning, I am back online with my computer (I only have one) and am wondering what I should do. So far, I'm only planning to install windows updates and restart.

I'm even more confused this morning, because the files were still missing from the WordPress editor this morning for the first hour, and now they are back. Does that mean that there is still a hacker in my computer or that the hacker undid the changes that he made to try to cover his tracks and the system was just slow to update?

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