A number of people seem to be wondering why it took The Hanso Foundation this long to shut down their website, given the fact that the criminal "Persephone" has been vandalizing it for so long now.

We're not the first to suggest this, but we think it's reasonable to speculate that the Foundation decided that their best course of action was to let "Persephone" become overconfident, until she pushed her luck to a point at which the Foundation -- and any law enforcement authorities the Foundation may have contacted -- had gathered enough information about her to track her down.

Given that what "Persephone" claimed were secrets about the Foundation in reality formed a smear campaign of lies and deceptions, the Foundation may have held the view that they could easily counter those lies in the arena of public opinion. And so they might have deemed the existence of those lies on their own website an acceptable risk in order to find the hacker and prosecute her to the fullest extent of the law.

All of which would mean that we've seen the last of the "Persephone" deception, which might also help explain why her self-appointed groupies are themselves becoming more vocal. Without their anonymous figurehead, they all now will jockey to take her place.

As for the Foundation site being inaccessible to the public, we simply assume that the degree to which they had to allow "Persephone" to run wild now means they have a great deal of clean-up and re-securing to do. In the end, we're sure, all we need is patience and the public face of The Hanso Foundation will return to the Web.