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Stinkin' Hackers
last modified: Thursday, June 18, 2009 (5:32:23 PM)
Okay so hacker isn't the correct term as there really wasn't any hacking involved. But...I forget the correct term right now. >.<' Anyways a certain children's roleplaying site that I'm an admin on was attacked once again by this one persistent hacker. By persistent I mean we've been fighting this same fellow off for about a year now. Last night he rejoined the site as a new member and asked a certain admin for help in a pm with links attached. When that admin foolishly clicked on the links somehow that gave the hacker her passwords to her account. So this very destructive fellow had admin powers in his hot little hand. Luckily this time the irritating guy only managed to delete the staff board, which is slightly irksome, and the bio boards for one of the areas in the game, which is extremely annoying. Before anymore harm was done we banhammered the IP putting a hold on his rampage. Then quickly demoted the infected admin's account to normal member until everything can be fixed and changed so he can't get back on. And of course banned the proxy account used to send the pm that caused the problem in the first place. Unfortunately we know full well that his computer generates random IPs so he'll be back. So now the sites on high alert once again. Ugh the stupid needless stress caused by clever computer users. XD It would be WAY less stressful if the site we use to host the game had a way to restore deleted files. As there would be really nothing any hacker could do that would cause actual damage to the game.

What I do find funny is that this person is bothering to attack a single site for over a year. And it's not like this is a very unique site at all. As there are literally THOUSANDS of similar sites just like it or even better (as ours is made for children it's heavily censored compared to others). It just seems like it would make sense if you didn't like a site for some reason to either not go to that site or create a site similar but better. I really don't understand the motives for this fellows actions. It just seems really pointless. And that's how this weeks going.XD

On a completely different subject I started watching Naruto. My friend gave me the first three boxsets because she didn't like the show anymore. SCORE! Free anime rocks! I'm still not sure if I like the anime yet though. For some reason the pacing seems off even though it's sticking incredible true to the manga so far. I dunno why it's bothering me. But I never really like the whole arch with Haku and that other guy whose name I can never spell. Also occasionally the animation is bad. So I hope they got a bigger budget in the future. XD Not that it bothers me too much. I mean two of my favorite shows Sailor Moon and Dragonball Z had repeat animation galore!
re: Stinkin'' HackersThursday, June 18, 2009 - 6:22:42 PM
amy

ugh. this guy sounds like he''s got some kinda grudge against your site or one of the admins or something. sorry to hear.
myself i could never get into naruto. at first i liked it but subsequentally it started getting worse and worse. it felt like they have a -jitsu for everything... made it seem like bad writing to me. good luck with the hacker! is it possible to trace this guy?


re: Stinkin'' HackersFriday, June 19, 2009 - 12:45:26 AM
penguinton

Apparently it''s all the staff. o.O Because we all are a bunch of brainless ninnies. He''s tried to "steal" the site out of the head admins control. Meh we''ve got death threats before so this really isn''t too bad. XD Just irritating. But there are some scary people out there in internet land. It''s a friggen kids site about talking cats. Theres no reason to commit murder over it. All we found out is he''s in Germany currently. But a hacker buddy thinks he can help if he does come back onto the site again. Meh we''ll see. :)

Yeah the jutsu in Naruto is definitely a writers convince. But so far I haven''t seen any contradictions in how jutsu can be used or whatever. As long as the writer doesn''t break his own rules I''m fine with it. So that aspect doesn''t bother me too much. I can clearly see why Naruto has so many haters out there as there are a few annoying flaws. The manga is WAAAAAY better than the anime so far. Of course I almost always love the manga more. XD


re: Stinkin'' HackersSunday, June 21, 2009 - 12:20:29 PM
noisywalrus

Sucks to hear that. We had some issues here maybe a year ago with an unpatched exploit (of my own design, hence my fault) that cause some database corruption. All is well now and fixed but I do feel your pain.